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1776 is a 1972 American historical musical drama film directed by Peter H. Hunt and written by Peter Stone, based on his book for the 1969 Broadway musical of the same name, with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. [4]
Revolution is a 1985 British historical drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Robert Dillon, and starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland and Nastassja Kinski.Pacino stars as a frontiersman in the colony of New York who involuntarily becomes involved in the Revolutionary cause during the American Revolutionary War.
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.
The New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 was a series of American Revolutionary War battles for control of the Port of New York and the state of New Jersey, fought between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington.
Within a few hours, 45 British ships dropped anchor in Lower New York Bay. [25] The population of New York went into a panic at the sight of the British ships; alarms went off and troops immediately rushed to their posts. [25] On July 2, British troops began to land on Staten Island.
The Battle of Fort Washington was fought in New York on November 16, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain. It was a British victory that gained the surrender of the remnant of the garrison of Fort Washington near the north end of Manhattan. It was one of the worst Patriot defeats of the war. [5]
The Landing at Kip's Bay was a British amphibious landing during the New York campaign in the American Revolutionary War on September 15, 1776. It occurred on the East River shore of Manhattan north of what then constituted New York City.
New York History 103.1 (2022): 23-35. Goodfriend, Joyce D. Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 (1994) Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (2004) Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press.