Well, she says it was the first battle of the RevWar, but I believe Bunker Hill takes that title. Quibbles aside, it's a terrific piece and gives you a feel for what the Brooklynites at the time felt.
At the time, Brooklyn was (essentially) all Dutch farms and little English was spoken there. They...for the mosty part..wanted to be left alone and farm and not take part in the war.
1 posted on
08/26/2010 10:11:57 AM PDT by
Pharmboy
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2 posted on
08/26/2010 10:17:21 AM PDT by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Pharmboy
Speaking of tours.
I would highly recommend the night Fraunces Tavern Rev Tour[NYC] on the 4th of July every year, if you can make it. It is a blast.
3 posted on
08/26/2010 10:32:58 AM PDT by
Palter
(If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
To: Pharmboy
Tavern life was a little more dicey on April 19, 1775 ... just ask Jacob Winship and Jacob Wyman (Cooper’s Tavern) or Col. Lee (Black Horse Tavern).
5 posted on
08/26/2010 10:42:36 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
("Obama suffers from decision-deficit disorder." Oliver North 6/25/10)
To: Pharmboy
Thank you for that. I grew up on 8th Street, at the bottom of Park Slope. Many of the Maryland 400 were buried, if not in my backyard, in the yards nearby. There had been a plaque around the corner on 3rd Avenue, stolen long ago, probably before I was born.
TS
7 posted on
08/26/2010 3:17:29 PM PDT by
Tanniker Smith
(If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?Five?No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.)
To: Pharmboy
Well, it was the first battle after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, making it the first battle fought by the United States of America.
12 posted on
08/26/2010 7:02:14 PM PDT by
StatenIsland
(If we insist that 99 1/2 wonÂ’t do, gotta have a hundred, we will again wind up with zero.)
To: Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
These taverns were, as well, notoriously effective venues for intelligence gathering. “In vino veritas” and all that. Alcohol consumption there was on a scale that would curl a modern drinker’s liver and the term OPSEC hadn’t been invented yet.
To: Pharmboy
I had Dutch ancestors at that time in Albany and Schenectady, one was too old to fight, the other too young, but I’m not sure they even spoke English or were interested at all in what the English and rebels were up to.
Another ancestor though was a patriot, and died on one of the hideous British prison ships in New York harbor. More patriots died there than were killed in all the battles of the war.
To: Pharmboy; SunkenCiv
Whoa! Who knew der was all dat history right here in Brooklyn!!
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