[Pharmboy]

I had never heard the two-mile debarkation story...I doubt it because when they left, they had to maintain strict silence (they used muffled oars, for example) for fear of the enemy noting that something was up. It would have been much easier to control the noise by keeping them in a single area.

But, perhaps your historian was right...

[Oratam]

He’s a self-taught guy. I think he leads tours occasionally in the neighborhood. The topography really doesn’t lend itself to the two-mile theory (e.g., steep bluffs along Brooklyn Heights, marshes in lots of places). I think it’s possible that separated units may have disembarked at different places commandeering boats where they found them.

[aculeus]

Thanks!