Battle Pass (Brooklyn)
Battle Pass, formerly known as Flatbush Pass or Valley Grove or The Porte, is a historic mountain pass, hill pass that played a significant part in the 1776 Battle of Long Island, and that is currently part of Prospect Park (Brooklyn), Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Flatbush Pass went through Heights of Guan along the Great Trail, Native American trail ''Mechawanienck'' that preceded Kings Highway (Brooklyn), Kings Highway (later this section became Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush Road), and was at the border between the Towns of Brooklyn and Flatbush in Kings County under the Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, Dongan Charter of November 12, 1685. Earlier, Governor Francis Lovelace, Lovelace mentioned the pass in documents from 1670. Battle of Long Island Battle Pass was the site of a skirmish between Americans under John Sullivan (general), John Sullivan and Hessian (soldier), Hessians under Leopold Philip de Heister during the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776. The Hessians ...
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The Battle Pass (in Prospect Park, Brooklyn) (NYPL B12610207-422569)
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