The Battery: The Story of the Adventurers, Artists, Statesmen, Grafters, Songsters, Mariners, Pirates, Guzzlers, Indians, Thieves, Stuffed-shirts, Turn-coats, Millionaires, Inventors, Poets, Heroes, Soldiers, Harlots, Bootlicks, Nobles, Nonentities, Burghers, Martyrs, and Murderers who Played Their Parts During Full Four Centuries on Manhattan Island's Tip |
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WHITE MEN ON MANAHHATIN 1524 I | 1 |
BRITAIN APPROPRIATES NEW AMSTERDAM 1664 | 16 |
LONG LIVE King George III 1760 | 66 |
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