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...shores of the island. Major General Israel Putnam hastily ferried over from Manhattan to Long Island with 500 men to support Brigadier General Nathanael Greene's four regiments on fortified Brooklyn Heights. Here a line of redoubts and breastworks zigzags for some two miles between Gowanus Creek and Wallabout...
...eight Goyas that were lent by Madrid's Prado, including both naked and clothed Majas. In Fort Greene Park, across the East River, Juan Carlos presented a bronze plaque at the monument to the Brooklyn Martyrs-the 12,000 men who died aboard British prison ships in nearby Wallabout Bay during the Revolutionary War. Most of the dead were Americans, but a large number of foreign soldiers and sailors who were fighting for the newborn nation also perished aboard the floating jails. More than 300 of them were Spanish...
Rain dappled the brownish waters of Wallabout Bay one morning last week. The intricately girded ways of Brooklyn Navy Yard were slickly wet. Four bells (10 o'clock) sounded. A drenched band struck up the national anthem...
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