[Pharmboy]

Evacuation Day used to be celebrated quite vigorously (an excuse to have a party where the drinks would flow) yearly in Boston, NYC, etc. These parties stopped with the advent of WWI and our alliance with the Brits.

[Constitution Day]

Interesting!

BTTT.

[Pharmboy]

Washington arrives in NYC Nov. 25, 1783

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[Eye of Unk]

I have a feeling there is about to be a modified version of it in the near future.

[ETL]

A WALKING TOUR OF THE BATTLEFIELD IN OUR MIDST

From

THE BATTLE FOR NEW YORK:

The City at the Heart of the American Revolution

by Barnet Schecter

The Battle For New York Walking Tour:
http://www.thebattlefornewyork.com/walking_tour.php

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The Battle For New York Home page:
http://www.thebattlefornewyork.com/home.php

[JerseyHighlander]

IF anyone can find the location of the beacons in NJ it would be appreciated. I’ll search now.

“Instead of lighting fires, Palisades, the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, and Scenic Hudson will create a symbolic Xenon light display that will light up Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area from Bear Mountain State Park to Beacon”

I have images of a parking lot full of Spring Valley’s “auto club” 1990 Honda Civics with aftermarket Xenon headlights all pointing outward from the top of Bear Mountain.

[voiceinthewind]

bttt

[the OlLine Rebel]

Sounds cool. But I still think the wussies should use fire.

Slightly off-topic: when is Obama going to start hi-jacking our heritage so that the celebration is excessive and somehow linked to him and his Congress minions?

[Centurion2000]

bttt

[Sparky1776]

Here’s a link describing the 80’ beacon pole used in Providence, RI.

Great-ggggggrandfather was a member of the Sons of Liberty there.

digitalcommons.providence.edu/cgi/...?article=1020&context=primary

[ZULU]

Actually, the boy scouts for the 200th anniversary of the end of the revolution in 1983 had set up a program to build full sized replicas and ignite them all along the original path of the beacons. In some cases, local wussies stopped the project, in others it proceeded.

There was a ring of these around New York City where the Brits were garrisoned. A chain of them ran across New Jersey from this ring to Philadelphia to warn the Continental congress if the Brits were moving out towards them by land.

They were ingeniously contructred for the most part in the form of a tall slender pyramid of interlocking wooden logs. In the hollow center, they were filled with brush and combustibles and in some cases the structure was surmounted with a pole from which a barrel of tar was suspended. When a structure like this is lit from below, an immense draft is created upwards which ignites the combustibles generating a high column of fire which could be seen miles away, especially at night. These structures were placed on very high hills in areas like the Watchung Mountains to make them even more visible at a distance.

At the end of the revolution, when the Treaty of Paris was signed, Washington ordered them all set alight in celebration. Since early Americans were MEN not WUSSIES, I don;t think there were any complaints. If there were, I am sure the complainants were expeditiously and appropriately dealt with.