No malls, warehouses? Agrarian NJ was ravaged by American Revolution

Can you imagine New Jersey's economy without malls and warehouses? The state was agrarian in 1776, and therefore a target for pillaging by troops.
Smithsonian Magazine

In 1776, Angry New Yorkers Tore Down a Statue of George III With a Revolutionary Fervor. A New Exhibition Lets You Do It, Too

Pulling Down the Statue of George III, Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, engraved by John C. McRae, published by Joseph Laing, 1859 MCNY The imposing 4,000-pound statue of George III arrived in Manhattan in ...
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American troops were defeated in 1776. Then Washington snuck into NJ

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December of 1776, just six months after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's Continental Army ...
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1776: The year the American Revolution nearly died

In 1776, the American Revolution stood on the brink of collapse. New York fell. The Continental Army was shattered at Long Island. Thousands deserted. British forces advanced relentlessly through New ...

Grondahl: Declaration of Independence read to bitterly divided Albany in 1776

Historians say Albany's first public Declaration reading came during violent political turmoil that split families, neighbors ...
New York Post

Gangs of New York: America’s revolution was fought across the city — intimately and ferociously

“The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” (premiering tonight on PBS). And in 1776, the awful violence of war was ...
Columbus Dispatch

American troops were defeated in 1776. Then Washington snuck into NJ

Washington led 2,400 men plus artillery and horses across the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776. The bold move came at a perilous time in the war, with enlistments lapsing, morale waning and ...