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New York City
First-person accounts and interpretive stories from New York City.
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Modern Voice
The City That Buried Its Revolution
New York does not wear its Revolutionary War history the way Boston does. In Boston, the Freedom Trail marks the route and the sites are maintained. In New York, the Revolution is buried — literally, ...
Historical VoiceThe Dead of Wallabout Bay
Provost Marshal William Cunningham
More Americans died on the prison ships in New York's Wallabout Bay than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War combined. This is not a metaphor or an exaggeration. It is a documented fact that r...