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[[AUTHOR'S NOTE]]

Living in Manhattan, you don't really think about the geography of the island, other than noticing that when you're walking uphill slightly pushing a stroller. So for this chapter, I did some digging in the Library of Congress online archives to figure out what Manhattan would have looked like during the flashback at the beginning of the chapter. Check out this map of General Howe's army that I found deep in the recesses of the archive:

https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71005422/

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