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Wikipedia: Following the American Revolution, Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when the last vestige of British authority in the United States — its troops in New York — departed from Manhattan. The last shot of the American Revolutionary War was reported to be fired on this day, as a British gunner on one of the departing ships fired a cannon at jeering crowds gathered on the shore of Staten Island, at the mouth of New York Harbor (the shot fell well short of the shore).
![[An early view of the Battery, it shows recent tree plantings and other improvements]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/View_of_Battery_Park_1793_s.jpg "An early view of the Battery, it shows recent tree plantings and other improvements")
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