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
Wading River (New Jersey) Wading flows southeast and joins the Mullica River from the north near its mouth, approximately north of Atlantic City. The lower of the river forms a navigable estuary, an arm of the estuary of the Mullica, just west of the Garden State Parkway. Like the Mullica, the river is noted for its extensive wetlands, including large runs of striped bass. Wading River (New Jersey) The Wading River is a tributary of the Mullica River, approximately long, in southern New Jersey in the United States. The river drains a rural forested area of the Pinelands, one of the most pristine areas