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NEW YORK CITY WILL SURVIVE YET ANOTHER CRISIS: 4/8: The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution by Benjamin L. Carp (Author)

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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NEW YORK CITY WILL SURVIVE YET ANOTHER CRISIS: 4/8: The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution by Benjamin L. Carp (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Great-New-York-Fire-1776/dp/0300246951

New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after the Crown’s forces took New York City, much of it mysteriously burned to the ground.

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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Benjamin Carp,

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a book on college and CUNY Graduate Center. His new book is The Great New York Fire of 1776.

1:14.8

A lost story of the American Revolution. Nearly 250 years later there's no resolution.

1:21.2

All the testimony gathered at the time from inquiries, from investigation for my witnesses,

1:27.3

from stories told and inquiry years later in in Britain run officially by the Crown still no

1:34.8

resolution because we're now talking about fire. Perhaps at 12 points, perhaps at 15, perhaps at 20.

1:40.9

But there are people now rushing to answer the fire breaking out in empty houses or houses that

1:47.8

have occupants. This got my attention immediately, Professor. I had to read it several times.

1:54.9

Pumps and buckets are sabotage, cutting of the bucket handle, breaking of the pump. How do we

2:02.5

explain that unless there was someone with a desire? I mean, the only other explanation,

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