ON THIS DAY IN 1870 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The anniversary of the final evacuation of this country by the British troops at New York, occurring today, following so closely upon Thanksgiving, has been scarcely observed, and has passed in an unusually quiet manner, not even the Manhattanites indulging in their almost invariable military or other display. The public buildings across the river are ornamented by flags, and in this city the watchful Keeper Tormey set the bunting of the municipality upon the staffs of the City Hall at an early hour, where they still wave. The same feature is apparent on a few private premises, but the people generally seem to have forgotten the day, for the nonce, and wonder what the flag setting means.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1904 , the Eagle re

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