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Lambertville, New Jersey, Where Theater Producer St. John Terrell Pelham Bay Park. Wallabout Bay, Now a golf course, in Admiral Howe sailed where the British 1776 it was where the part of the British fleet docked their prison Massachusetts through Hell Gate, At Fort Washington, ships from 1776 It’s not just Regiment held back which was insane and just northwest of the Did the British to 1783. Eleven the Brooklyn the British Army hang American spy seemed impossible, in 190th Street A thousand prisoners dead who lie in behind a stone fence October 1776. , Maryland and Nathan Hale at the died here, more than what’s now station (still there). Virginia riflemen Gap on 66th Street in all the battles in Green-Wood fought back Hessian and Third Avenue? the war. Buried in Cemetery, but the mercenaries—briefly. Maybe! It’s one of shallow riverside British too—part They were then routed several places he graves, their bodies of the cemetery, from the city, fleeing might’ve declared in were accidentally built in 1838, is first to Fort Lee, where 1776, “I only regret exhumed in the known as they were routed I have but one life to building of the Navy Battle Hill to lose for my country.” commemorate again, and eventually The first White House, Yard in 1803. Their one skirmish to the Pennsylvania (Another would be on Cherry Street, bones now lie in Fort (it’s also the part side of the Delaware. inside Grand where President Greene Park. where Leonard Central Terminal.) Washington lived in Bernstein 1789 before moving, Morgan Library, is buried). which includes the a year later, over to boyhood home of I.N. Broadway. Now this Phelps Stokes, the site is beneath the man who, during the Brooklyn Bridge. great fire of the Albany capitol in 1911, saved George Today’s 8th Street and Washington’s sword. Third Avenue The 1776 Battle in Park Slope, where, of Harlem Heights, archaeologists where Americans believe, a mass grave chased British containing the entire forces north, Maryland Regiment a small victory. is submerged. The Gowanus At MoMA in 1958, Larry Canal, then an oyster-filled Lambertville, New Rivers’s painting Washington creek through which Jersey, where theater Crossing the Delaware was Wall Street Pier, the Continental Army fled producer St. John damaged by fire, just as where Washington the Battle of Long Island Terrell (probably) Emanuel Leutze’s (much more landed en route (now known as the Battle conceived his annual iconic) Washington Crossing to his 1789 of Brooklyn). reenactment of the the Delaware was in that inauguration after crossing of the artist’s studio. a boat trip Delaware in 1953. from Elizabeth, New Jersey. Washington’s first In 1776, Trinity reading of the Church burned to the Declaration of ground during the Independence to British assault. In A reconstruction of the 1976, Queen Elizabeth first Federal Hall, once on his troops, just outside City Hall, visited the site, where A replica of the Wall Street, was built in she was given 279 Bryant Park in 1932 to on July 9, 1776. country’s first combat years in back rent. In celebrate the 200th submarine, built by a peppercorns. (The Red Hook artist, anniversary of original 1697 church Washington’s birth. “attacked” the Queen charter called for rent Mary 2 cruise ship in A faux Mount Vernon was of one per year.) KEY: built in Prospect Park. 2007, failed to sink it. Revolutionary War site. Fraunces Tavern, Until World War I, site of General Place of reenactment— the British evacuation of Conference House Washington’s the city was celebrated reverential, satirical, Bowling Green, Park, where John or otherwise. farewell dinner to annually by kids trying to where rebels tore Adams and Ben his officers in 1783. climb a greased flagpole down a statue of Franklin sailed from Still a restaurant, at the Battery, where a guy Permanent memorial or, King George III to Perth Amboy in amazingly serving had climbed a flagpole uh, resting place. melt down into a last-minute period food. to claim the Union Jack bullets (the Bowling attempt to broker the day the Brits left the Landmark of the Green fence still has a peace with the city in 1783. (The British Washington presidency its tips cut off from British on had greased the flagpole to when New York was the the theft). September 11, 1776. capital of the country, make it more difficult.) not just the world..
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