NYC marks forgotten holiday from Revolutionary War[Evacuation Day]

AP ^ | 25 Nov 2008 | RICHARD PYLE

[BGHater]

People in 18th century dress greeted visitors Tuesday at Federal Hall, commemorating the end of the Revolutionary War.

The costumed reenactors were busy answering questions about the 225th anniversary of Evacuation Day, the day in 1783 when the last British redcoats boarded ships in New York Harbor and sailed away, and Gen.George Washington and his victorious troops marched down Broadway.

[BGHater]

You can really zoom in on the Papers.

WASHINGTON, GEORGE, AS CONTINENTAL COMMANDER

[BGHater]

Rev. War and GW ping.

[VanDeKoik]

It would be really cool for some of these forgotten observances made a comeback. But that will leave too few days left to celebrate The Obama.

[Paine in the Neck]

Boston also celebrates an Evacuation Day. That’s when all the gov’t offices disgorge themselves of taxpayer funded employees. By good fortune, it corresponds exactly to St. Paddy’s Day.

[2banana]

And now these patriots minutemen would be thrown in jail by the King Bloomberg for bearing arms...

[Tanniker Smith]

Hadn't occured to me.

Then again, I doubt that most Americans realize that the Revolution lasted until 1783.
Hell, a lot of them probably think it ended (or at least started) in 1776!

[BGHater]

Lol. Your gonna piss off the people in NC and SC if you say it started in 76.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks much for the ping...I will ping the short list.

The Flag of the Grand Union, 1775-1777.
The Red Cross of St. George and the White Cross
of St. Andrew with 13 red/white stripes

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[Clemenza]

NOT forgotten by me! I blame the Anglophiles for the near death of this holiday myself (we don’t want to “piss off those Brits” do we?). ;-)

[Tanniker Smith]

I know better than to say either — even if that’s what the book was called!

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