Author: Benjamin L. Carp
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300268475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War? New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after the Crown’s forces took New York City, much of it mysteriously burned to the ground. This is the first book to fully explore the Great Fire of 1776 and why its origins remained a mystery even after the British investigated it in 1776 and 1783. Uncovering stories of espionage, terror, and radicalism, Benjamin L. Carp paints a vivid picture of the chaos, passions, and unresolved tragedies that define a historical moment we usually associate with “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.&rdquo
The Great New York Fire of 1776
Author: Benjamin L. Carp
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300246951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War? New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after the Crown's forces took New York City, much of it mysteriously burned to the ground. This is the first book to fully explore the Great Fire of 1776 and why its origins remained a mystery even after the British investigated it in 1776 and 1783. Uncovering stories of espionage, terror, and radicalism, Benjamin L. Carp paints a vivid picture of the chaos, passions, and unresolved tragedies that define a historical moment we usually associate with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300246951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War? New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after the Crown's forces took New York City, much of it mysteriously burned to the ground. This is the first book to fully explore the Great Fire of 1776 and why its origins remained a mystery even after the British investigated it in 1776 and 1783. Uncovering stories of espionage, terror, and radicalism, Benjamin L. Carp paints a vivid picture of the chaos, passions, and unresolved tragedies that define a historical moment we usually associate with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
The King of the Alley
Author: Robert Francis Jones
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Jones offers a full study of the career of late-18th century entrepreneur William Duer, a member of the New York State Convention and the Continental Congress, and assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury when the Federal government was organized. Duer had a role in all the significant changes that occurred during the revolutionary period.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Jones offers a full study of the career of late-18th century entrepreneur William Duer, a member of the New York State Convention and the Continental Congress, and assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury when the Federal government was organized. Duer had a role in all the significant changes that occurred during the revolutionary period.
Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution
Author: Henry Barton Dawson
Publisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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History of Westchester County
Author: John Thomas Scharf
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Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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History of Westchester County, New York
Author: John Thomas Scharf
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Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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New York Year by Year
Author: Jeffrey A. Kroessler
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814747515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814747515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
Illustrated Catalogue of Important Revolutionary Letters, the Unpublished Correspondence of Robert R. Livingston, First Chancellor of New York
Author: James Richard Keane
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Auction Catalogue
Author: American Art Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Index, the Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Leacraft, W.-Pyttis
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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