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Evacuation Day (New York)

Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when the British Army departed from New York City on Manhattan Island, after the end of the American Revolutionary War. In their wake, General George Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his headquarters north of the city across the Harlem River, and south through Manhattan to the Battery at its southern tip.[1]

Evacuation Day

New York City

Date when the last British troops left New York

November 25

Annual

November 25, 1783 (1783-11-25)

Monument in Bennett Park marking the November 16, 1776, evacuation and the November 25, 1783 triumphal entry of the American forces

Monument in Bennett Park marking the November 16, 1776, evacuation and the November 25, 1783 triumphal entry of the American forces

Washington's Entry into New York by Currier & Ives

Washington's Entry into New York by Currier & Ives

George Washington, Evacuation of New York, by John Trumbull, 1790, New York City Hall

American General George Washington stands in front of a white horse, with Bowling Green and the Battery in the background, on Evacuation Day, November 25, 1783

Henry Kirke Brown's 1856 Equestrian statue of George Washington in Union Square commemorates Washington's entrance to the city on Evacuation Day

Henry Kirke Brown's 1856 Equestrian statue of George Washington in Union Square commemorates Washington's entrance to the city on Evacuation Day

Hood, Clifton. : Urban Elites, New York City’s Evacuation Day, and the Transformations of Memory Culture, Journal of Social History, Summer 2004.

An Unusable Past

(1883). Evacuation Day, 1783; Its many stirring events; with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, by whose efforts on that day the enemy were circumvented and the American flag successfully raised on the Battery. New York.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Riker, James

Schecter, Barnet (2002). . New York: Walker&Co. ISBN 0-8027-1374-2.

The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution

The Founding Fathers of American Intelligence

Steenshorne, Jennifer E. , New York State Archives, Fall 2010, volume 10

Evacuation Day

. Teaching American History. April 2022.

"Evacuation Day – November 25, 1783"

Salwen, Peter (November 23, 1985). . The New York Times.

"What Evacuation Day Meant to New York"

– Sarah Vowell on The Daily Show, November 17, 2011

Happy Evacuation Day