Show r n S Scene c j t to o le place Where Americans First First I Fought Under Own Flag to toBe toBe Be Museum Site I i 1 v ye c York fork After ork-After After years and years ears of cf and neglect something done at nt last to set aside b MS s been as ns a ark YIrk rk oDd and nu national shrine Brooklyn's post jost ost historic ground the ground the site of ut the itle of Long Island Die board of estimate has voted noted to the buildings on un the tho block I bere n-bere the tho chief engagement of the Hie J B Ule of Long Island was fought I Here General Stirling August 27 1776 1716 with less than men held back 2 British and charged them five arate times tunes preventing the British from rom closing dosing the Iron ring so that the I Americans might escape across the thet t to the refu refuge e of the inner Imer line liner r jf of fortifications on Brooklyn Heights Heights I And bud if the present generation does not Dot how kno It Washington's officers realized 10 to 0 the rhe full the mighty mIght deeds performed tj lI I General Stirling and his Maryland Maryland- fIS that day and called General Stirling Stir StIr- ling its us brave a n man as ever er lived Near Anniversary 1 1 Now O Othe the first step has hns been taken to lie clear the ground for a memorial In which shall shull rise dignified col- col I ms which shall stand forever a n rejoinder re re- joinder alader of the valorous deeds performed performed per per- formed there on that day H it is on nn appropriate time for action ae- ae don tion for In another year one hundred tad ltd forty eight ort eight years will have hae passed dace fince nc the Marylanders landers stood against ibe best troops Europe ever sent to toI I these l' l e shores anti and fought them to a although outnumbered twenty I ty tr Ito to one And Willie while they held themI them theta I ii n Nicholas old stone hou house e ehi the thi- shattered remnants of the Con- Con escaped across the mur marsh h lines fines in iu the very nick nIcI of time The stones of that house which post pos- pos f t t ed d the added distinction of being headquarters before the Ule settle I are n-e still burleI urIel under the historians sn say and the house oats DUY be he restored It was built In 1663 toil ered covered when the land was filled filed In All these years ears Brooklyn has never the spot l Maryland land has how bow tier rr a bronze tablet which bears te tl- tl to the heroisms of the sons of or Maryland el I The first national battle fought In America was us that of Long Island Island- It ni 5 the first battle hattJe In which American fought under a n flag of their theIron on 0 It 11 was the first time American troops I D m t tile the flower of the British army In Inq q em field Held fighting and proved a n match tor for them I The largest British army that ever came to the shot shores es approximately 25 5 men men took part In the battle It was the first attempt on the part of the British to work out an elaborate plan which had for its ts object the crushing of the American army at one blow and the bre breaking king of all resistance I It was the first time the Americans ever er met German troops In battle the battle the Hessians under De Do Heister Helster No Shaft Marks Spot The bones of some Borne of the best men of Maryland lie under the ground ground- men who saved a nation nation hut but no shaft Bhatt rises no green park purk Is there The plan for the restoration of the to house contemplates Its use as a n museum for historical 1 objects The Brool Brooklyn lyn Heights Forum which has been heen urging the establishment of ot the park has hns a plan llian to put a stadium and playground fied Hed ground there and erect two g ni- ni memorial memo shafts One of these shafts would be faced with white hutland Hut Hut- land Vt marble and built bunt In 13 sections sections sec sec- to represent the 13 11 original colI col col- onies onles The other would s symbolize tho the I 48 states I |