New York City, NY
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Provost Marshal William Cunningham
The Dead of Wallabout Bay
More Americans died on the prison ships in New York's Wallabout Bay than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War combined. This is not a metaphor or an exaggeration. It is a documented fact that r...
Modern Voices
The City That Buried Its Revolution
New York does not wear its Revolutionary War history the way Boston does. In Boston, the Freedom Trail marks the route and the sites are maintained. In New York, the Revolution is buried — literally, ...
