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FOURTH SECTION SIXTEEN PAGES NEW YORK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1913. WHE PICTORIAL MAGAZINE CovvriuM, 1913, by Ihr Hun Printing and 1'utiUtkinu AitoctaHon. N THE BRITISH LEFT NEW YO K3n 91 3S EE sai In m i S3 Copy rigit- J8Q3 by fjarper d. 'Bros. JfteConfinentaiJIrmy JWarc&'ng "Down tic Govsery yZovi 25 J 733. R OL'GIILY speaking, and allowing for all Intervening leap years, It will be at 3 o'clock P. At. on Tuesday next just about l.l.J't.soj hours since a Continental soldier entered the old Fort George in New York city to find that some Royalist soldier 1. 1! p.ir ,K (..Hi removed the halliards and also had soaped the flagstaff, J tl it it w.is not readily and easily possible for the incoming Americans r the ei' ,ign of their country over the fort in the sight of the last y I of departing British soldiers. For, lx; it remembered, Novem r -S, its.?, was the date of the Evacuation of New York by the British ' "p .'ii i evacuation on such an occasion deserves to be spelled with an 'PIT civ.' Ii. Fading the flagstaff so fixed up for the Incomers, an agile young "lor - ipplii'd with rough wooden cleats and a pocketful of nails slowly ut s in!) worked his way to the top of the pole, and attached a new set f h. X irds, arid in a short time thereafter the Stars and Stripes were ''"'is to the breeze and saluted with thirteen guns and reverberating Iklt from the throats of American freemen sounds to echo 'in the ears f tlie i i t of the British soldiers to leave this city on the occasion of the fwtr I tt.dnig of English occupation of American soil. W heti Comwallis surrendered at Yorktown in 1781, that marked the Kinr of negotiations for peace between the United States and Great Urit.. Along in September of 1783 the British and American repre im,,t ,nct .irKj sjgnt;(j the treaty of peace. Gen. Washington early in maw w promulgated the news from his headquarters in Rocky Hill, ''" I'1 eton, N. J., and It was arranged that November 25 should be t e di of the withdrawal of the British forces from this city, after seven , ear of occupation. It was a sad plight for the loyalists, who had the him ,f remaining at home and submitting to the jeers of the patriots, going to British North American possessions to begin life there III A Hi tory records that "the British military authorities took all possi '' pollutions to see that the articles of the treaty were executed in o01' f -th, especially with regard to carrying away slaves; and commanding lf' " of the regiments about to embark were ordered to take care that ,,J "" r under their command was permitted to sail who had not satis- r yfc I a at Doaf-.ooef of Me Gritisi tied all his creditors. Ml the pri-orier of war were nleasid from the jail; and prison ships and paroled." At the time there were aN)iit 0,500 Anglo-German troops in the and its vicinity. In addition thue were about .Hi.oon retugii" wlio 1 ' -l to leave the cit , and a fleet commanded by Admiral Oigh I. n New 'ork harlxjr to take the refugees to Nova Scotia and the solduMwk to Britain. It took some time to arrange all the details of thee.ki '11 1 and It was late in November before all was in readiness for the I111 I .k' in the drama. On November 1", history tells us. Generals Washington and Knox and Gov. Clinton, whh their respective stalfs, arrived at Day's Tavern, at what is now 1.25th street and Eighth avenue. A small prousional brigade of detachments from the troops encamped at West Point and New burgh, about sort men in all, under Brevet Brig.-Gm. Henry Jackson, had preceded the distinguished personages and were in camp at Mc Gowau's Pass, which is part of Central Park. Not long after noon on November 25 a British staff officer reported that the rear guard of tin British army was embarking at the Battery. The American column at once moved in by the route selected. Ore of the pictures printed herewith shows them moving down the Boweiy to take ossession. They proceeded to Chatham street, then to Quein (Pearl) street and by Wall street to Cape's Tavern, which stood on the site of the old Boreel Building. Here the line formed at parade rest while the main guard marched down Broadway to Fort George, followed b. . n excited throng, anxious to witness the most interesting scene of the o casion, which was the hoisting of the American flag over the fort. This was hampered, as was told in the first paragraph. As the guard passed into the old fort the scene was impressive. In the upper bay and just off the Battery were the warships at anchor and the boats loaded with the last of the red coated Britishers were makin;; their way toward them. The last thing the British soldiers heard from the shores of the United States were the triumphant guns and cheers i.f the American citizenry welcoming back their own soldiers to the possessi n of the great city, as it was defined to be, of the North American con nent