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George III statue on, 203, 212, 232

in late nineteenth century, 1050, 1058

laying out of, 175

in New Amsterdam, 50

price of land near, 187

in proprietary New York, 85

protests on, 199–200

in revolutionary New York, 212, 226, 232

in 1790s and early 1800s, 371, 372, 373, 374, 385

streets and roads near, 184

Boxing, 405, 642, 754-56, 827, 1164

Boycotts, 454, 560, 1098, 1100, 1172, 1178

Bradley Martin fiasco, 1206

Bradstreet Agency, 659, 940

Brady’s gallery, 815

Branch Hotel, 643

Brannon’s pleasure garden, 300

Bread, 355-56, 521, 623

Bread and Cheese Club, 469-70

Bread Fund, 1189, 1190

Breadline, 1189

Brearley, 1087

Brentano’s Literary Emporium, 948

Breuckelen (Long Island), 36, 67, 73

Breweries/brewers, 53, 70, 278, 287, 307, 391, 475, 595, 741, 745, 930, 933, 950, 988, 1089, 1091, 1098, 1137, 1191, 1228. See also Distilleries

Brick Presbyterian Church, 250, 452, 456, 530, 717

Bricklayers, 930, 987-88, 1091

“Bridewell,” 213-14, 323, 324, 365, 366, 507, 593, 623, 636

Bridge Street, 79, 87, 241, 400, 561

Bridge Street African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal (AWME), 400, 561, 973

Bridge Street Methodist Church, 857

Bridges: in colonial New York, 139, 184

East River, 1228

in late nineteenth century, 1222, 1223

in mid-nineteenth century, 655, 656

railroad, 655, 656, 873, 1222. See also Brooklyn Bridge

Brighton Beach, 1135, 1137, 1146

Brighton Beach Bathing Pavilion, 1135

Brighton Beach Hotel, 1135

Brighton Beach Racetrack, 1135

Britain: attitudes about rebels in, 254

and Caribbean trade, 434–35

Catholics in, 94

and Civil War, 868, 871, 873, 876, 887

Civil Warm, 98

colonial debt to, 170

colonial policy of, 195-98

as competition, 307, 845

creditors in, 568, 657, 843, 847, 1022, 1042

Glorious Revolution in, 95-96, 99

and imperialism, 1210, 1211

Irish attitudes about, 871

in late eighteenth century, 307, 308

most-favored nation status of, 321

opened to American trade, 265

and Panic of 1857, 844, 845, 847

party politics in, 111–12, 114, 115, 116

planned French invasion of, 327

popular reaction to American Revolution in, 244

religion in, 43, 57, 63, 95-96, 104

sympathy for American Revolution in, 233, 244

Tories flee to, 224

unification of Scotland and, 116

Whigs in, 233

working class in, 233. See also Anglo-Dutch relations

Anglo-French relations

British troops

English

Jay Treaty

Napoleonic Wars

New York (proprietorship)

New York (royal colony)

Parliament

specific monarch or act

British Legion, 246

British troops: behavior of, 250, 254-55

blacks as, 248, 249, 250, 254

in Boston, 168, 207, 211, 215, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229, 232

and British colonial policy, 195, 196

and British occupation of New York, 245-46, 248, 249, 250, 251, 254-55

cemetery for, 930

and class issues, 232–33

and colonial resistance to British policies, 198, 199, 204

and conquest of Canada, 177

and crime, 185

desertions among, 192, 225

and economy of New York, 168, 181-84, 191, 247

and Evertsen’s attack on New York, 82

first stationed, 101

and French and Indian War, 191

hats for, 183

Irish in, 193

and liberty pole, 211

liberty pole chopped down by, 205

militia fights with, 226

Montreal captured by, 191

moonlighting by, 182, 193, 211

New York as headquarters for, 228

and peace treaty, 256

in post-revolutionary New York, 267

and press gangs, 182

in proprietary New York, 81-82

provisioning and quartering of, 168, 196, 198, 205, 211, 223, 230, 247, 249, 250, 251, 255, 271

raids on, 223, 226, 243-44

recruiting of, 255

reinforcement of New York by, 205

return to New York by, 231-39

slaves as, 235

and Stamp Act, 198, 199

suppliers for, 272

withdraw from revolutionary New York, 225, 258, 259-61. See also Quartering Act; Royal Navy

specific person or battle

British West Indies, 315, 321, 551

Broad Street: as Blommaert’s Vly, 30

and British occupation of New York, 251

Qty Hall on, 109

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