What did New York do during the time of the American Revolution?

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Answer 1

Nothing. There was nothing that they could do. Washington fought and lost the Battle of Brooklyn Heights and retreated into New Jersey. The British occupied New York. There is a "Hessian hut" in northern Manhattan where the mercenary soldiers were quartered. Washington retreated slowly south through New Jersey, which is the "crossroads of the revolution." He crossed the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, where he wintered at Valley Forge. He crossed the Delaware again on Chiristmas Day to surprise the Hessians at Trenton. People of New York were not cowards. It's that the course of the war took the action elsewhere. The battle of Monmouth in New Jersey saw the greatest numbers of cannons on both sides of the entire war. The end was on a penninsula in Virginia where Washington cornered Gen. Lord Cornwallis. Cornwallis thought that British warships might carry his army off to fight another day. But a French admiral deGrasse showed up with his ships in support of the Americans. Cornwallis surrendered his sword to Washington. No shame to New Yorkers.

Answer 2

New York contains many of the battlegrounds of the American Revolution. The war in New York took on many of the characteristics of a civil war, since the area probably had a higher proportion of residents who were loyal to the crown than did any other colony.