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  2. Great Fire of New York (1776) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of town and city fires - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Category:1776 in New York (state) - Wikipedia

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  5. List of building or structure fires - Wikipedia

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    August 2 – Waldbaum's supermarket fire, Brooklyn, New York. Six New York City firefighters died when the roof collapsed, plunging 12 firefighters into the flames. [108] November 5 – A fire at the Younkers Department store at the Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines, Iowa, killed 10 store employees. The store was closed and rebuilt a year after the ...

  6. List of fires at places of worship - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Evacuation Day (New York) - Wikipedia

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    Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when the British Army departed from New York City on Manhattan Island, after the end of the American Revolutionary War.In their wake, General George Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his headquarters north of the city across the Harlem River, and south through Manhattan to the Battery at its southern tip.

  8. 1776 - Wikipedia

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    September 22: British hang spy Nathan Hale in New York City. September 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Harlem Heights: The Continental Army under Washington is victorious against the British on Manhattan. September 17 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

  9. History of Rockland County, New York (1798–1900) - Wikipedia

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    Grey and red sandstones were quarried in great quantities, Building stone from local quarries went into the old Capitol at Albany, Fort Lafayette and the old Trinity Church in New York destroyed in the Great Fire of New York (1776), and the first building at Rutgers College.

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