New York and New Jersey campaign able to make an orderly retreat to Manhattan under cover of darkness and fog. Washington suffered a series of further defeats in Manhattan, with the exception of the skirmish at Harlem Heights, and eventually withdrew to White Plains, New York. At that point Howe returned to Manhattan to capture forces Washington had left in the north of the island. Washington and much of his army then crossed the Hudson River into New Jersey, and retreated all the way across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, shrinking due to ending enlistment periods, desertions, and poor morale. Howe ordered his troops into winter
Chemung, New York National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Census Bureau, Chemung has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.12%, is water. The Chemung River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, flows through the south part of the town. The south border of the town is Pennsylvania (Bradford County), and the east border is Tioga County, New York. The Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 and New York State Route 17) and New York State Route 427 are east-west highways in Chemung. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,665 people, 969 households,