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>From: Dave Ruch <[log in to unmask]>
>Date:         Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:12:24 -0500
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>
>Very interesting Walter, thanks. 
>
>And here is the song that Washington's troops reportedly sang as they >marched
down to New York City to take it back from the British: >http://home.earthlink.net/~jeffwarnertradmusic/DoodleDandy.mp3

>
>Dave R.
>www.daveruch.com
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Walter Greenspan
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:40 AM
>  Subject: [NYHIST-L] Today is 222nd Anniversary of Evacuation Day
>
>
>  On November 25, 1783, the British Army boarded their naval vessels and >

>  evacuated New York City (then coterminous with New York County), their >wartime

>  headquarters and their last military position in the United States >during
the
>  Revolutionary War.
>
>  As they sailed away in retreat through the Narrows separating Long >Island
and
>  Staten Island, the last thing they saw, as their ships sunk below the
>  horizon, was the Flag of the United States of America flying atop the >Liberty
Pole
>  (an extended flag pole) in the frontyard of the Dutch Reformed Church >in
the
>  Hamlet of New Utrecht, Town of New Utrecht, Kings County.  Today this >is
at 18th
>  Avenue and Liberty Pole Boulevard (84th Street) in the neighborhood of >

>  Bensonhurst in the Borough of Brooklyn (Kings County), New York City.
>
>  Replaced six times over the years, the 106' Liberty Pole is the last
>  remaining Liberty Pole in the original thirteen United States.  On top >of
the Pole is
>  the original eagle and weathervane. The eagle is made of wood and has >a
5'
>  wingspan. After two hundred and twenty-two years, the weather has >weakened
it
>  considerably and it has been reinforced with iron bands.
>
>  Here's the URL for the New Utrecht Liberty Pole Association:
>  http://www.historicnewutrecht.org/LPA.html
>
>  Here's the URL for the Dutch Reformed Church:
>  http://www.newutrechtchurch.org/
>
>
>  I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Walter Greenspan
>  Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY
>
>
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