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Lecture: Great New York Disasters

GREAT NEW YORK DISASTERS: The New York Fire of 1776. Following his disastrous defeats in Brooklyn and Washington Heights, the inexperienced Southern plantation owner General George Washington, abandoned the city of New York with the remnants of his army. The city’s Patriots advocated burning the city, but Washington and the city’s many Loyalists were opposed. In September of 1776 a fire broke out on New York’s south-eastern corner which devoured almost a quarter of the city as it went. Join Ron Brown for the second in a series of 4 lectures.

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