One part of the Battle of Brooklyn was fought up on this high ground in the Greenwood cemetery. Now, it has a plaque and for some reason a Civil War obelisk. The American Revolution (1775-1783) did not end with July 4, 1776's Declaration of Independence. In fact, the war was just getting started. The fall and winter of 1776 would turn out to be the lowest point in the eight-year-long war for the patriots and their bewildered leader George Washington. Fact: Just when the deleg

Pearl Street's Fraunces Tavern today (in lower Manhattan) site of a big banquet in June 1776 that Washington attended. So where were the patriots as of mid-summer 1776? Let's find out. The Second Continental Congress Two-hundred and fifty (250) years ago in late June 1776, state delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia debated Jefferson's draft of The Declaration of Independence (DOI). Jefferson was the key person in the Committee of Five (Adams, Franklin, Living