#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution
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For decades New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day every November 25, a holiday marking the 1783 departure of British forces from the city they had occupied for several years during the Revolutionary War. So where did it go?
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