Join us as we stroll through the streets of revolutionary New York, examining what it would have been like to be a New Yorker under British rule.
Listen to it HERE:
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New York as it looked during British occupation (i.e. before various lower Manhattan landfills!)
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The HMS Jersey, docked right off the show of Brooklyn, and home to the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers and prisoners
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The horrible conditions of the prison ships, as hinted at in this illustration
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The Prison Ships Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene, honoring the thousands who died nearby off the shore of Brooklyn
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The mystery of George Washington’s Culper Ring spy gang has inspired more than a few romantic tales:
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George Washington jubilantly returns to the city
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Fraunces Tavern, site of George Washington’s farewell speech to the Continental Army
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Fraunces Tavern today:
Want to peek inside the tomb buried underneath Fort Greene’s Prison Ships Martyrs Monument? How about a map of the communication lines between the various spy factions of the Culper Ring?
1 reply on “PODCAST: Life in British New York: 1776-1783”
[…] I haven’t tracked down evidence of the Schuyler sisters gallivanting through New York – although TBH if it was a stealth sneak-out like Angelica’s describing, I guess I wouldn’t find that anyway. But since New York City was occupied by the British during the war, Philip Schuyler probably wouldn’t have wanted his daughters there. [source] […]