Henry Phelps Johnston (1842-1923) was the American author who wrote The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn (1878). “THE site now occupied by the two cities of New York and Brooklyn, and over which they continue to spread, is pre-eminently “Revolutionary soil. †Very few of our historic places are more closely associated with the actual scenes of that struggle. As at Boston in 1775, so here in 1776, we had the war at our doors and all about us. In what is now the heart of Brooklyn Revolutionary soldiers lay encamped for months, and in the heat of a trying summer surrounded themselves with lines of works. What have since been converted into spots of rare beauty-Greenwood Cemetery and Prospect Parkbecame, with the ground in their vicinity, a battle-field. â€