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Excerpt from Centennial Celebration of the Evacuation of New York City, Monday, November 26th, 1883: With an Historical Outline and Order of Procession The protracted struggle between Great Britain and America, known as the War Of the Revolution, commenced in 1775 and ended in 17 83. Punctually at twelve o'clock on the morning of April 8th, one hundred years ago, the proclamation of peace between the two countries was read by the Town Major at the City Hall, then in Wall Street, in the presence of a great number of inhabitants. Though the proclamation bears date of the 14th day of February, 1783, it should be remembered that the pre liminaries were signed on the 2otb Of January of that year. Washington announced the fact to his army on the 19th Of April. New York had been in British hands since September 15th, 1776. Fighting substantially ended with the battle Of Yorktown in October, 1781, its decisive nature compelling the British Virtually to admit their inability successfully to continue the struggle. Six months after they displayed a willingness, if not an anxiety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The following book covers a period in American and British history called the Evacuation Day, when the British Army departed from New York City on Manhattan Island, after the end of the American Revolutionary War. In their wake, General George Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his headquarters north of the city across the Harlem River, and south through Manhattan to the Battery at its southern tip.
Evacuation Day, 1783, Its Many Stirring Events; With Recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale, of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, by Whose Efforts on That Day the Enemy Were Circumvented, and the American Flag Successfully Raised on the Battery, is many of the old books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text and artwork so that they can be preserved for the present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.