num_pages: 464
description: Provides a dramatic account of the seminal role played by New York City during the American Revolution, from its September 1776 fall to the British under General William Howe, through years of occupation, and beyond, interweaving illuminating profiles of the individuals on both sides of the conflict with a study of the cultural, political, social, and economic events of the eighteenth century. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution
titlecomplete: The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution
genres: American Revolutionary War, Military Fiction, History, American History, Military History, American Revolution, New York, War, 18th Century, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 154
publisher: Penguin Books