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The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side of what then constituted New York City at the southern end of the island of Manhattan. [3]
The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British military and political center of operations in North America for the remainder of the war. [29]
Firefighters continue to battle several wildfires around the Los Angeles area as of Sunday. The nearly 100-year-old Topanga Ranch Motel was destroyed in the blaze on Tuesday night.
An aircraft flies to drop fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm on Jan. 7, 2025. California ...
The Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776. London: The Macmillan Company. Lengel, Edward (2005). General George Washington. New York: Random House Paperbacks. ISBN 0-8129-6950-2. McCullough, David (2006). 1776. New York: Simon and Schuster Paperback. ISBN 0-7432-2672-0. 1776 David. Montross, Lynn (1967). The Story of the Continental Army ...
The Eaton Fire ignited Tuesday night near a canyon in the sprawling national forest lands north of downtown Los Angeles and had exploded to 14,117 acres by Friday night and was 3%, according to ...
Los Angeles is the location of more than 250 of these properties and districts, including 11 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately. Pasadena is the location of 130 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they, too, are listed separately. The 202 properties and districts located elsewhere in ...
It had grown to more than 17,000 acres Thursday, with zero containment, Cal Fire said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department estimated that the Palisades Fire threatened more than 13,00 ...