#evacuation-day — Public Fediverse posts
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250 years ago, today, the British evacuated Boston thanks to George Washington's leadership. And let's not forget Henry Knox.
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Untapped Cities examines Evacuation Day, a once-major New York City holiday that commemorated the British departure on November 25, 1783. The article explores how this significant Revolutionary War milestone gradually faded from public memory and what it reveals about how cities choose which historical moments to remember and celebrate.
#NYCHistory #RevolutionaryWar #EvacuationDay #AmericanHistory #HistoricalMemory #NewYork
https://www.untappedcities.com/evacuation-day-new-york-citys-forgotten-november-holiday-2/ -
https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/happy-new-york-evacuation-day-2025/
November 25 marks New York’s Evacuation Day. What is Evacuation Day? I humbly cite to me:
New York’s Evacuation Day, not to be confused with Massachusetts’ Evacuation Day, is a former New York annual holiday that fell on November 25. It marked the organized November 25, 1783 British evacuation of New York City, which coincided with General George Washington leading American troops to Fort George to complete the transfer of power.
Nicholas A. Ferrell
Learn more in my 2023 article on Evacuation Day. If you happen to be into karaoke, you can impress your friends or colleagues with your rendition of an olden Evacuation Day song.
#evacuationDay #nycHistory #thisDayInHistory #uSRevolutionaryWar #usHistory
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Happy Evacuation Day for those who observe.
"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." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_Day_(New_York)
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#Syria #EvacuationDay #GlobalEducation #SocialStudies #SocialStudiesTeacher #Education #Edutooters #Histodons #History #Homeschooling @education @edutooters
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Today we celebrate victories against the English, who have sought to extinguish a multitude of peoples. It’s Evacuation Day in Boston.
Much love to my Irish, Palestinian, and Welsh friends - who most certainly are not alone.
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Today we celebrate victories against the English, who have sought to extinguish a multitude of peoples. It’s Evacuation Day in Boston.
Much love to my Irish, Palestinian, and Welsh friends - who most certainly are not alone.
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Boston Holidays
March 17th is a big day for the city of Boston. As most people know, it’s St Patrick’s Day and Boston does love to get its Irish on for a day. For me personally, I am of Irish descent (with the red hair to show for it… for now). My father’s mother’s family came to the US from Ireland. My mother’s parents were from New Foundland (before it became part of Canada) but prior to that we believe the family was in Ireland as well. My father’s father’s family was from Nova Scotia (I think) and before that the family was from England. I guess no one is perfect.
While St Patrick’s Day is the big deal for most of us around here, people in Suffolk County also have another holiday today. Evacuation Day. George Washington placed the cannons stolen from Fort Ticonderoga onto Dorchester Heights, where they could threaten the English warships in the harbor, thus breaking the Siege of Boston. When I was a kid I was insanely jealous of the kids in Boston because they had the day off from school on March 17th and those of us in Middlesex County did not. They didn’t have to go to school on St Patrick’s Day and we did. What a rip off! There were people from the Merrimack Valley fighting with the Continental Army during the siege, why don’t we get the day off to honor them too?
It wasn’t until I was 21 or 22 years old and going to school at Northeast Broadcasting School in Boston that I got to have Evacuation Day off. Better late than never, I guess. As for today, happy St Patrick’s Day. Most of Boston drank themselves into the annual stupor over the weekend, so there isn’t a lot of actual celebration today. We used to have Corned Beef for dinner on St Patrick’s Day, but I think tonight we’re just going to have chicken. Maybe we’ll do something next weekend to celebrate. I am wearing a green shirt today though. Not because I chose to wear green today, but because a green shirt just happened to be on the top of my laundry pile. Call it the luck of the Irish.
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45 seconds of lively Irish music and some history on this holiday eve:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2gBQXLv/
We WILL be free ☘️
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Happy Evacuation Day to those who celebrate tomorrow!
"Washington’s General Orders for the day set the password and countersign for safe re-entry into the city as “Boston” and “St. Patrick,” respectively; a day no doubt auspicious for the General, his Irish troops, and the notion of American liberty."
Also #StPatricksDay #EvacuationDay #BostonMA
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/religion/a-brave-and-generous-people/
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1783 NY Evacuation Day Song
“The toast is, “Freedom’s favorite son,
Health, peace, and joy to Washington!”https://thenewleafjournal.com/1783-ny-evacuation-day-song/
#AmericanRevolution #EvacuationDay #GeorgeWashington #Manhattan
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Fresh off the presses, my long, detailed history of a former official New York City holiday that landed on November 25: Evacuation Day. It commemorated the evacuation, or final departure, of the British military from Manhattan on November 25, 1783, which was followed by the entry of the U.S. military led by a certain General George Washington.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/history-of-new-yorks-evacuation-day/
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History of New York’s Evacuation Day
https://thenewleafjournal.com/history-of-new-yorks-evacuation-day/
A detailed history of New York City’s Evacuation Day, a former holiday that landed on November 25 and was second only to Independence Day in NYC’s patriotic pantheon.
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TIL about #EvacuationDay in #NewYorkCity which commemorates the evacuation of the last British troops and loyalists from Manhattan on November 25th, 1783 to #NovaScotia , #Florida , #Caribbean colonies , and #London.
The #BlackBrigade of 3,000+ freed slaves from American colonies were also evacuated, in violation of the #Paris peace treaty that ended the #AmericanRevolutionaryWar. C’est dommage! 🤷🏻♂️
