On this day 236 years ago, rebels against an imperial government far less overreaching than ours skulked on York Island (now known as Manhattan). They had battled that government across the East River in Brooklyn two weeks before, but its army of Redcoats routed them and sent them scurrying back to York Island. They’d huddled there ever since. They knew it was only a matter of time before the Redcoats followed and finished them and their Revolution. What they didn’t know was where along York Island’s approximately 50 miles of coastline that attack would come. A handful of troops from … Continue reading Kip’s Bay