Posted on 12/30/2018 4:27:58 PM PST by firebrand
On June 25, 1775, William Tryon — the governor of the British colony of New York and a fierce loyalist to the crown — returned to New York City after a yearlong trip overseas. As such, he fully expected to be greeted by a public procession on Broadway.
Tryon disembarked from his boat and was indeed met with a parade, but there was just one problem: It wasn’t for him.
That same day, the new Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, George Washington, had arrived in the city and was met with a hero’s welcome. Adding insult to injury, Tryon was not only forced to wait several hours for Washington’s procession to end, he also had to put up with a crowd jeering — at him.
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So is the Post saying Andrew Cuomo should assassinate Trump?
you mean there was benedict Arnold V2?
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Nothing new under the sun...
That never occurred to me. Just a NY history thingie.
People go up to the Cloisters and look at the million dollars’ worth of art and the old monastery and then have a picnic in Fort Tryon Park and never even think about the history.
Very nice.
I have an old street map of the city. Used to think “Bloomingdale” was somebody’s name, the founder of the department store. It’s the name of my neighborhood.
On the map, I saw that it was once a field of blooming flowers, right around here, between the Hudson River and the Boston Post Road (which became Broadway).
Thanks for posting this article. I’ve been to Tryon Palace and didn’t know the background on this character. He makes Benedict Arnold seem quite honorable in comparison. This Tryon was a tyrant.
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Downright medieval.
I actually have a couple of these maps which were republished circa 1850 and part of a NYS History Book.
NY was full of folks loyal to England.
The one I have shows the street grid when it only went about a third of the way up. Bought it for $15 decades ago.
I think of NY being Dutch before the Revolution. The Dutch actually arrived in the state of New York by sea, of course, including onto the eastern tip of Long Island, and Southampton is lousy with those old wooden windmills that the Dutch built. Most of them don’t have the blades, just the structure, that you can go inside of.
One time I was out there watching the filming of a movie and I left my jacket in the windmill and had to rush and get it before the cameras started. When I explained to them, “I left my jacket in the windmill,” they said “In the what?”
Around here and maybe other places, the fictional aristocratic old woman is always referred to as “Mrs. Van der Whatever,” a holdover from the old Dutch aristocracy.
Lots of Dutch upstate of course, Fishkill and places like that.
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Eastern Long Island was always British. It was actually part of New England back then. Western LI and NYC had the Dutch populations along with upstate NY.
From Riverhead east the original and up to recently populations called themselves Bonikers. I dated one boniker girl in the early1970s. Her parents accent could be mistaken for a NE accent.
Windmills work in British areas as well as Dutch. Eastern LI was British.
New Yorkers gotta New York.
New York’s pre and post revolution history is WILD. Most people aren’t taught the everyday things that were well documented there. Throughout upstate NY there are literally 250 years of history just waiting to be read. Real history too.
I mean the King’s men were NOT happy to give up their land once the crown was chased off. Look back well enough into New York forestry and you’ll bump into Hillary Rodham’s ancestors.
From Stowe mountain down to Philadelphia and even into Maryland and Delaware you’ll find that our country USED TO BE the bravest people fighting impossible odds and unbeatable forces to courageously become an independent nation..
.. Flash forward to today and you’ll find the least patriotic, least american enemy commie traitors in these same places.
One of my friends went to Holland a few years back to bone up on his heritage. Much of the family were Pennsylvania Dutch and one arm moved to NY. His family still owns the original farmlands in Pennsylvania.
What you say makes sense, since the towns were all named Hampton this or that—except Amagansett and Montauk, where I guess the Indians still ruled. I figured Dutch windmills made it a Dutch settlement.
But NYC of course, and up the Hudson, really was Dutch.
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