What the records say
- When
- 21 Sep 1776
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 40.70° N, 74.01° W
- Description
- Major fire in New York
Great Fire of New York (1776)
Major fire in New York
The Great Fire of New York burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side of what then constituted New York City at the southern end of the island of Manhattan. It broke out in the early days of the military occupation of the city by British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
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