His Majesty's News Network: Dispatch from Staten Island
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August 14, 1776, as covered by the Crown's own cable news. From occupied Staten Island, HMNN reports on General Howe's armada of more than 400 ships and 32,000 men, the King's offer of peace, and the traitor Washington scrambling to fortify Manhattan before the battle for Long Island.