The Battery: The Story of the Adventurers, Artists, Statesmen, Grafters, Songsters, Mariners, Pirates, Guzzlers, Indians, Thieves, Stuffed-Shirts, Turn-Coats, Millionaires, Inventors, Poets, Heroes, Soldiers, Harlots, Bootlicks, Nobles, Nonentities, Burg…

xiii, 304 pp. Endpapers illustrated with map of Battery Park, New York, 1686-1860. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Includes: White Men on Manah-hatin (1524); Britain Appropriates New Amsterdam (1664); Long Live King George III (1760); Thirteen Stars and Stripes (1783); Castle Garden Opened (1824); The Nation's Gateway (1855); In Our Time (1901-1936); Looking Ahead; Index.