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
Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey at Interchange 7 with the Garden State Parkway (at Interchange 38) that runs through north-south for connecting Somers Point in the south to Galloway Township in the north. NJ Transit provides bus service between Egg Harbor Township and Atlantic City on routes 502 (from Atlantic Cape Community College), 507 (from Ocean City), 508 (from Hamilton Mall) and 509 (from Ocean City). People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Egg Harbor Township include: Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Egg Harbor Township is a township in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United