This Saturday, August 27 marks the 240th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn, also sometimes called the Battle of Long Island because where the fighting took place, in what is now Prospect Park, Park Slope, and Green-Wood Cemetery, wasn’t yet part of Brooklyn. It was the first battle in which regular Patriot troops under the […]
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“The Great Escape”, Commemorating Washington’s Evacuation of Brooklyn, at Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday
By Claude Scales on August 25, 2016 10:38 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn History, DUMBO, Events, History, Neighborhoods
Re-enactment of Washington’s Evacuation of Brooklyn This Saturday
By Claude Scales on August 18, 2014 5:57 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn History, DUMBO, Events
Update: We’ve just been advised that the re-enactment event has been cancelled because the group doing the re-enactment has a schedule conflict. This Saturday, August 23, from noon to 2:00 p.m. there will be a re-enactment of the evacuation of the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, from Brooklyn to Manhattan. The […]
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