After he lost the Battle of Brooklyn ... t admit any discussion of the bad deeds the nation had done in 1776. If New York was to be a great city, it had to move past its years of British occupation.

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Historian Barnet Schecter wrote about the fire in his 2002 book, The Battle for New York ... I am completely convinced.” A map of New York City in 1776, with city blocks destroyed by the ...

21, 1776, just as the British army and armada were occupying New York, forcing the withdrawal of Washington’s ragtag army after its defeat on Long Island. The fire did serious damage ...

"A naval spectacle of more than 90 vessels filled the Narrows [of New York Harbor]," wrote the late historian David McCullough in the book "1776," his ... Washington's forces in the Battle of ...

Christmas, 1776. George Washington and his ... evacuated the bulk of the Continental Army from New York after its disastrous loss at the Battle of Brooklyn. The Continental Congress begins to ...

Brooklyn College professor Benjamin Carp talked about the circumstances in New York City in 1776 and the clash between the British and American troops prior to the fire that occurred in the city ...