Fort Lafayette
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Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in The Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from nearby Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now the Bay Ridge neighborhood in the New
Fort Lafayette, seen from the Brooklyn / Long Island / east shore with Denyse's Wharf to the left
Fort Lafayette in 1904
Robert Cobb Kennedy, hanged at Fort Lafayette for arson, 1865
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789
Robert Cobb Kennedy
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Robert Cobb Kennedy was a Confederate operative who was hanged for his role in a failed plot to burn New York City during the American Civil War.
Fort Lafayette
…detained under Abraham Lincoln's selective suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Fort Lafayette came to be known as the "American Bastille" to some. Robert Cobb Kennedy, formerly a captain in the 1st Louisiana Regular Infantry (CSA), was one of the Confederate conspirators in the plot to burn New York on Thanksgiving…
General Edwin Stoughton, Kennedy's classmate and later his defense lawyer
Barnum's American Museum, where Kennedy attempted to start a blaze
Fort Lafayette, site of Kennedy's execution