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Elizabethtown and Newark Raid
During the night of January 25, 1780, British forces staged simultaneous raids into Elizabethtown and Newark in New Jersey.
==Elizabethtown==
Colonel Abraham van Buskirk led the attack into Elizabethtown with 300 infantry under his own command and 60 dragoons of the 17th Light Dragoons under the command of Captain William Steward.〔 They also had a party of loyalist militia, bringing the total number of this body to about 400.〔 Col. van Buskirk's men were guided into the town by three local men, Job and Smith Hetfield, and Captain Cornelius Hetfield.〔
After crossing the ice from Staten Island to Trembly's Point about 3 miles from Elizabethtown, the British infiltrated the town in two divisions.〔 They plundered some houses and captured the American commander as well as two or three officers〔 and forty-seven colonial soldiers.〔 The loyalist militia burned the Presbyterian church and court house against the wishes of Col. van Buskirk.〔 By this time the alarm had been raised and the British retreated by way of De Hart's Point,〔 burning De Hart's house on the way because it was frequently used by American forces.〔
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