James Riker
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James Riker was a New York historian and genealogist. His father, James Riker was a merchant and landowner descended from early Dutch settlers. Riker left school at the age of sixteen to work in his f
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Evacuation Day (New York)
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Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when British forces evacuated New York City after the Treaty of Paris led to the end of the American Revolutionary War. In their wake, General Georg
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…Harlem (city of New York): its origin and early annals (1881) Evacuation Day, 1783, with Recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale, of the Veteran Corps of Artillery (1883) Works by James Riker at Project Gutenberg…
The 1879 painting Evacuation Day and Washington's Triumphal Entry
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in modern Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn.
Washington's Grand Entry into New York, November 25, 1783 by Alphonse Bigot
Monument in Bennett Park marking the November 16, 1776, evacuation and the November 25, 1783 triumphal entry of the American forces