The Great New York Fire of 1776]

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 Museum and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society hosted this program in New York City.

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