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The War Years (1775-1783)
Posted on Retracing Alexander Hamilton’s Steps Through the Remnants of Revolutionary New York
When Alexander Hamilton arrived in New York in the early 1770s, the city was already the one of the largest in the colonies, second only to Philadelphia. Yet Manhattan’s 25,000 residents inhabited just a small portion of the island which stretched from the Battery to well below today’s 14th street. The rest was sparsely-inhabited farmland, […]
