British troops led by General William Howe arrived in New York City and offered Washington a pardon. British map of the Battle of Brooklyn. Brooklyn 1776 is based on similar historically accurate ...

But “I’m not sure that I am completely convinced.” A map of New York City in 1776, with city blocks destroyed by the fire shown in red Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Cherokees and ...

Haot helped oversee 1776's operations at its Brooklyn Navy Yard location in New York City and worked to launch ... in grant money from the New York Region Economic Development Council for the ...

Today is the anniversary of a fire that destroyed 20% of New York City, on Sept. 21, 1776. You’ve probably never heard of this fire, which is what the Founding Fathers intended.

Brooklyn College professor Benjamin Carp talked about the circumstances in New York City in 1776 and the clash between the British and American troops prior to the fire that occurred in the city ...

The New York City Fire of 1776.” The journal had published the article 13 years earlier, in 2006. It had not reached a wide audience, clearly. It’s not mentioned in Atkinson’s vast ...

In this August 1776 proclamation, printed and distributed in New York City, George Washington asked vulnerable citizens—“Women, Children, and infirm Persons”—to leave the city ahead of the ...

Brooklyn College historian Carp (Defiance of the Patriots) delivers a detailed report on the fire that destroyed “more than a fifth” of New York City in September 1776, six days after it was ...