New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . hen Golden Hill), between the Sons of Libery and a detachment of the Sixteenth Regiment (British), inwhich the latter were worsted. When the London arrived in the harbor with taxed tea the people, following the example of Boston, threw hera few weeks later compelled theobnoxious article, to put back toing the Battle of Lexington, theelected a committee of onecorned the New England delegatesFrigate Asia fired a broadside in-to life and pro])erty, and the Pro-by Royalist troops from Britain,summoned aid from New
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . hen Golden Hill), between the Sons of Libery and a detachment of the Sixteenth Regiment (British), inwhich the latter were worsted. When the London arrived in the harbor with taxed tea the people, following the example of Boston, threw hera few weeks later compelled theobnoxious article, to put back toing the Battle of Lexington, theelected a committee of onecorned the New England delegatesFrigate Asia fired a broadside in-to life and pro])erty, and the Pro-by Royalist troops from Britain,summoned aid from New encamped in Harlemthus New York threw in her lotrevolted colonies, and began opera-Affairs assumed a still moreLiberty seized the Royalist depotBay (now foot of Forty-seventhfrom the Battery. Isaac Sears, onerode down from Connecticut atmen, seized the plant of the RoyalBritish organ, and turned the typeafter this General Charles Lee,commanders, marched into the cityencamped on the Commons, dis-chiefiy of officials, E])iscopalians,rag-tag and bobtail of the local. WASHINGTON STATUE, UNION SQUARE. cargo into the North River, andNancy, laden with the sameEngland. On the Sunday succeed-citizens seized the government,hundred and enthusiastically wel-to the Continental Congress. Theto the city which did much damagevincial Congress, fearing an assaultwhich might arrive at any answer to their request Generalwith 1,800 Connecticut Militia andwith the most aggressive of thetions against the common enemy,warlike aspect when the vSons ofat Greenwich village, and TurtleStreet) and removed thirty cannonof the leading New York Patriots,the head of a body of light horse-Gazcttccr.^ the official and pro-into good patriotic bullets. Soonone of the newly made Continentalwith 1,200 troops from Connecticut,armed the Tories, who arrivals from l^ngland and Lord Stirling suc- ceeded (ieneral Lee as military commander of the city, and he was in turn succeede
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