have you read burr by gore vidal? it's not exactly about this but it is about the grubby intrigue of colonial and early american politics
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no, will check it out!
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'Golden Hill' is set 30 years before that era, but shares some of the same themes, and it is terrific:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/golden-hill-a-crackerjack-novel-of-old-manhattan …
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links not working for me, what’s the book?
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I second, third and fourth the Turn Washington Series & Book! Wow, what a legacy of patriotism
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Due to founding families from that time are still wanted by the Russian imposter overseas in that good old UK, for overthrowing them and leaving to America. History is brief, the next great chapter happened ~1966-2003, and well, still isn't resolved, so no one knows what happened
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Honestly 66 is when troubles began again, WW2 has very misinformed history shared for a handful of other reasons also. And that treaty is and has not been honored.
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Do you know about the British prison ships in New York Harbor? 11,500 American Revolutionary patriots died aboard 16 ships. Some of the bodies that were removed (not dumped overboard) were buried at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, found again during development in 1873.
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Their remains were reinterred in a crypt under the mostly forgotten Prison Ship Martyr's monument in Fort Greene Park in 1908.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument …
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