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Today is Evacuation Day: The Original Brexit: It's Evacuation Day, when the British left New York (and America) for good; Hoisting the Flag: An Evacuation Day Tradition; Evacuation Day Remembered in Bowling Green; Evacuation Day: A celebration of New York and American independence; Evacuation Day: A forgotten holiday; A Short History of ‘Evacuation Day Day’ in NYC


The Original Brexit: It's Evacuation Day, when the British left New York (and America) for good;


Hoisting the Flag: An Evacuation Day Tradition


Evacuation Day is still celebrated in the city and around the metro area. This video is from 2015...

11/25/15: Evacuation Day Remembered in Bowling Green







Evacuation Day: A forgotten holiday
Kevin Baker: "All day long they marched down the length of Manhattan, 800 soldiers and cavalry of the Continental Army, behind Gen. George Washington"




Evacuation Day: A celebration of New York and American independence

Before Thanksgiving prevailed, we celebrated another holiday in late November
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Johannes Adam Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, 1848.jpg
Evacuation Day Program Document List.doc
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Kosciuszko wasn’t just Poland’s most famous revolutionary. In 1776, he sailed for America to fight alongside George Washington and the Continental Army.jpg
A pair of students walk past a historic mural that includes slaves and a dead American Indian at George Washington High School in San Francisco on April 3..jpg
This illustration shows General George Washington escaping New York in 1776, a few weeks after a plot to assassinate him was foiled.jpg
George Washington’s inauguration and the 1939 World’s Fair.jpg
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, the author of Never Caught The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, at George Washington’s estate in Mount Vernon, Va.jpg
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