While repulsing British reconnaissance efforts into New Jersey, the 1st Regiment helplessly overhears the Continental Army's defeat in Brooklyn. After peace talks fail, Montgomery orders four companies to Fort Lee and four companies to Fort Washington to buffer General Howe's invasion into Manhattan. When Fort Lee and Fort Washington are defeated (along with Montgomery's four companies who are taken prisoner and sent to prison “ships of hell”), Montgomery and his remaining companies, along with General Washington and the remaining Continental Army, retreat to Pennsylvania as they are pursued by General Cornwallis.