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The campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn. Brooklyn: The Long Island Historical Society. p. 245. OCLC 234710. citizens. Lamb, Martha Joanna (1896). History of the City of New York: The Century of National Independence, Closing in 1880. New York: A. S. Barnes. OCLC 7932050. Schecter, Barnet (2002). The Battle for New York.
1776 – First Great Fire of New York City of 1776; 1776 – Around two-thirds of Varaždin, the capital of Croatia at the time, destroyed in a fire of unknown origin. 1787 – Great Boston Fire of 1787. 100 buildings destroyed in the southern part of Boston. [8] 1788 – First Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, 856 out of 1,100 structures burned.
1776 establishments in New York (state) (5 P) ... Great Fire of New York (1776) H. Heights of Guan; Thomas Hickey (soldier) P. Battle of Pell's Point; R. Red Hook ...
Map showing the counties of New York considered part of the "Burned-over District" [1] [2] The term "burned-over district" refers to the western and parts of the central regions of New York State in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place, to such a great extent that spiritual fervor expanded like a ...
St. Agnes Church (New York City) – Damaged by fire on December 24, 1898. A second fire on December 10, 1992 left only the walls and towers standing. [112] St. Peter's Church (Washington, D.C.) – Destroyed March 17, 1940, when a blowtorch being used to remove paint from the windows of the clerestory set off a spark. [113]
The English had renamed the colony the Province of New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the Mayors of New York. The city grew northward and remained the largest and most important city in the Province of New York, becoming the third largest in the British Empire after ...
A portrait of Major John Andre remains upside down at the '76 House in Tappan. General George Washington turned it over when Andre was hung as a spy after giving the plans of West Point to ...
Great Fire of New York (1776) Great fire of Tartu; Great New Orleans Fire (1788) Great Oulu fire of 1705; Great Stockholm Fire of 1759; M. Moulin de l'Agau massacre; N.