Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when the British Army departed from New York City on Manhattan Island, after the end of the American Revolutionary War.

On November 25, 1783, Evacuation Day, New York City witnessed the end of British rule with General George Washington’s triumphant entry, marking a pivotal moment in American independence. This day, celebrated citywide, especially at Third Avenue and the Bowery, symbolized the restoration of American control.

By the time the final British forces left the colonies in November 1783, between 8,000 to 10,000 emancipated Black colonials had been evacuated from New York and Charleston on ships heading to Nova Scotia, East Florida, the Caribbean, and other parts of the British Empire.

Nov 13, 2009 · On November 25, 1783, nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the last British soldiers withdraw from New York City, the last British...

Nov 25, 2021 · In the years immediately following 1783 there were spontaneous demonstrations and parades on Evacuation Day, largely led initially by Revolutionary War veterans. It was on Evacuation Day in 1790 that the New York Artillery Volunteers were formed as a company of soldiers designed to defend the City.

On November 25, 1783, on a “cold, but radiant” fall day, Van Arsdale finally tore the British flag from the flagpole in Fort George, at the southern tip of Manhattan. The redcoats hadn’t made it easy.

Nov 24, 2014 · Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. A once-annual holiday local to New York City, Evacuation Day was formerly equal in importance to the Fourth of July.

Nov 25, 2023 · A history of New York City’s Evacuation Day, a former holiday that fell on November 25 and marked the November 25, 1783 British evacuation of Manhattan.

Nov 25, 2014 · A century after the end of the War for Independence, New Yorkers continued to celebrate a holiday known as “Evacuation Day,” commemorating the leaving of the last British troops from New York City on November 25, 1783.

EVACUATION DAY. 25 November 1783. The departure of British troops from New York City on this date was coordinated with the city's reoccupation by the remnants of the Continental Army. Major General Henry Knox directed the operation.