Evacuation Day (New York)
Evacuation Day for New York was the day that the last of the British authorities in the United States (its troops in New York City) left Manhattan on November 25, 1783. After this British evacuation, General George Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army through the city.
Evacuation Day (New York) Media
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in modern Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn.
Washington's Grand Entry into New York, November 25, 1783 by Alphonse Bigot
View of the commemorative flagpole at the Battery in its "gigantic churn", during a visit by the French frigate Embuscade (shortly before the action of 31 July 1793)
Painting of flagstaff and "churn" at the Battery
The "churn" after its retirement as flagstaff, c. 1825
Julius Caesar at the Winter Garden Theatre, with John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, and Junius Brutus Booth Jr., November 25, 1864
Raising the Stars and Stripes, 1883 print showing John Van Arsdale's 1783 raising of a variant of the Cowpens flag, and the discarding of an historically inaccurate version of the Union Jack (post-1801 with the blue and red reversed, not the pre-1801 flag)
Monument in Bennett Park marking the November 16, 1776, evacuation and the November 25, 1783 triumphal entry of the American forces
