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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 Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776. On August 27, 1776, British troops under the command of General William Howe flanked and defeated the American army at the Battle of Long Island. [5] Howe moved his forces and pinned the Americans down at Brooklyn Heights, with the East River to the American rear.
Manhattan: New York: One of the nation's first settlement homes where new immigrants and the poor could find assistance 45: Matthew Henson Residence: Matthew Henson Residence: May 15, 1975 : Manhattan
Approximate locations of some past and present Manhattan neighborhoods. This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between ...
Manhattan David H. Burr Map 1834 David H. Burr: Manhattan, Brooklyn Bradford Map 1839 Thomas Gamaliel Bradford: Manhattan, Brooklyn, New Jersey Mitchell Map 1846 Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Manhattan, Brooklyn Colton Map 1853 J. H. Colton: Manhattan, Long Island, Bronx, New Jersey, Staten Island New York Bay and Harbor, 1861 1861 United States ...
March 3–4, 1776: Bahamas: Patriot victory. They raided against the Bahamas to obtain supplies [22] Battle of Saint-Pierre: March 25, 1776: Quebec: Patriot victory [23] Battle of Block Island: April 6, 1776: Rhode Island: British victory [24] Battle of The Cedars: May 18–27, 1776: Quebec: British victory [25] Battle of Trois-Rivières: June ...
December 8: A long racial dispute in Harlem over the eviction of an African-American record store-owner by a Jewish proprietor ends in murder and arson. 51-year-old Roland Smith Jr., angry over the proposed eviction, set fire to Freddie's Fashion Mart on 125th Street and opened fire on the store's employees, killing 7 and wounding four. Smith ...
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]