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The Man Who Tried to Burn New York (Paperback, illustrated edition): Nat Brandt

The Man Who Tried to Burn New York (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Nat Brandt

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In a desperate attempt to bring the North to the bargaining table and end what was to the South a losing war, Confederate spies in Canada launch a plot to burn New York City on the day after Thanksgiving in 1864. A group of rebel officers...all escapees from Union prison camps who had fled to neutral Canada for safety...reach the city by train and, in disguise, take rooms in various hotels in downtown New York. They fail but only because, unknowingly, they use a chemical mixture that requires oxygen.

Smoke from the incipient fires they set is quickly discovered and the fires put out. In the dramatic search for the conspirators that follows, only one of them is caught, Robert Cobb Kennedy, a captain from Louisiana. He is tried, convicted and hanged...the last rebel executed by the North before the end of the war.

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Imprint: Iuniverse, Inc.
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1999
First published: August 1999
Authors: Nat Brandt
Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 312
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-58348-346-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 1-58348-346-2
Barcode: 9781583483466

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