On This Day: The Great New York Fire of 1776. On this day in 1776, a fire broke out and burned down much of Manhattan shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War.

Today is the anniversary of a fire that destroyed 20% of New York City, on Sept. 21, 1776. You’ve probably never heard of this fire, which is what the Founding Fathers intended.

The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution Benjamin L. Carp. Yale Univ, $30 (360p) ISBN 978-0-300-24695-7 ...

In July 4, 1777 the Sons of Liberty set fireworks off over Boston Common and in Philadelphia the Pennsylvania Evening Post wrote “at night there was a grand exhibition of fireworks (which began and ...

Northwestern Queens in the American Revolution . Military operations during the Revolutionary War mostly took place in New Jersey or New York, however the ways in which those events affected the local ...

The Great New York Fire of 1776 makes us rethink many of our assumptions about the American Revolution and New York City’s role in it. Carp presents the reader with a violent, confused account ...

In “The Great New York Fire of 1776,” Benjamin L. Carp argues that Americans, not the British, deliberately started the blaze.

Brooklyn College professor Benjamin Carp talked about the 1776 fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War. The Fraunces Tavern ...