context: The New York and New Jersey Campaign (1776-1777) is a 9-month British and Navy campaign against the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The aim was to control the city of New York and the adjacent part of the colony, and over New Jersey. It lasted from the arrival of the British (Hessian) expeditionary force to North America to the start of operations under Philadelphia.
question: What year did the campaign in New York and New Jersey take place?
answers.text: 1776-1777