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  • Historians lobby for state signage to recognize Revolutionary War general Nathaniel Woodhull

    09/28/2010 10:13:36 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 7 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | NICHOLAS HIRSHON
    The cannon at Nathaniel Woodhull School (PS 35) in Hollis is the only marker of death of the Revolutionary War general Nathaniel Woodhull. Historians are lobbying for official state signage. Exactly 234 years ago this month, a Revolutionary War general died from wounds incurred during a defiant showdown with the British - a gripping tale of patriotism that began in Queens. But the spot where Nathaniel Woodhull was mortally wounded in 1776 does not bear tribute to the first high-ranking colonial officer to become a prisoner of war and die in enemy captivity. "It needs to be preserved as a...