"Burn, New York, Burn! The Confederate Plot to Burn Manhattan" Topic
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| Tango01 | 06 Jun 2020 10:34 p.m. PST |
"On Nov. 25. 1864, eight men walked the streets of Manhattan, New York. The group, calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan, split up and approached a series of hotels on their lists and checked in. "At 17 minutes of nine the St. James Hotel was discovered to be on fire in one of the rooms," The New York Times reported. Bedding and furniture had been saturated with an accelerant and set aflame. A few minutes later, Barnum's Museum was ablaze. About the same time, four rooms of the St. Nicholas Hotel were ablaze. By 9:20 p.m. a room in the Lafarge House was ln flames. Then the Metropolitan House, Brandreth House, Frenche's Hotel, the Belmont House, Wallack's Theatre and several other buildings were on fire. Included in the incendiary maelstrom were 5th Ward Museum Hotel, Astor House, the Belmont Hotel, the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the Howard Hotel, La Farge House, Lovejoy's Hotel, the Metropolitan Hotel, the St. James Hotel, the St. Nicholas Hotel, the Tammany Hotel, and the United States Hotel…"
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| Kevin C | 07 Jun 2020 9:42 a.m. PST |
Aren't we glad that those types of things don't happen in New York city anymore. |
| Tango01 | 08 Jun 2020 3:01 p.m. PST |
Ha!Ha!…. Amicalement
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