New York wasn’t a sideshow to the American Revolution—it was the center of it. This tour follows the city’s transformation from a divided colonial port to the first capital of the United States.
Before independence was declared, violence had already erupted here—months before Boston. From that moment, we trace the Revolution across New York: where resistance formed, where Washington’s army struggled to hold the city, and where the Declaration of Independence was first read to the troops on July 9, 1776.
We follow the collapse and survival of the American cause—from the escape from Brooklyn to seven years of British occupation—and end where it all came full circle, with the evacuation of Br...
ما تشمله الجولة
٢ ساعات و ٣٠ دقائق
مُقدم في الإنكليزية & الإسبانية
إلغاء مجاني
بطاقة رقمية
٢ ساعات و ٣٠ دقائق
مُقدم في الإنكليزية & الإسبانية
إلغاء مجاني
بطاقة رقمية
ما تشمله الجولة
جولة إرشادية
الإكرامية
نقاط التلاقي
الانطلاق
43 Park Row
Steps of Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St.
العودة
Bowling Green
Ends at Bowling Green, steps from multiple subway lines, the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and ferries to the Statue of Liberty.
المعلومات المهمة
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مسموح بحيوانات الخدمة
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تتوفر خيارات النقل العام في مكان قريب
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مناسبة لجميع مستويات اللياقة البدنية
سياسة الإلغاء
للحصول على استرداد كامل للمبلغ، قم بإلغاء الحجز قبل ٢٤ ساعة على الأقل من موعد المغادرة المقرر.
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لاسترداد المبلغ بالكامل، يجب الإلغاء قبل 24 ساعة على الأقل من موعد بدء التجربة.
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يُعرض وقت انتهاء الحجوزات بالتوقيت المحلي.
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إذا قمت بالإلغاء قبل أقل من 24 ساعة من وقت بدء الجولة، فلن تتمكّن من استرداد المبلغ الذي دفعته.
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لإجراء هذه الجولة، يجب توافر حدّ أدنى من المسافرين. إذا تم إلغاؤها بسبب عدم استيفاء الحد الأدنى، فسوف يُعرض عليك إمكانية اختيار تاريخ/تجربة مختلفة أو استرداد المبلغ بالكامل.
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لن يتم قبول أي تغييرات تجريها قبل أقل من 24 ساعة من وقت بدء الجولة.
العناصر | Private Tour: Colonial and Revolutionary New York
برنامج الجولة
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محكمة تويد
We begin at the steps of the Tweed Courthouse, on ground once surrounded by British barracks, a jail, and the city’s poorhouse. This was a center of unrest in the years leading to the Revolution. Here, the Sons of Liberty defied British authority, raised liberty poles, and clashed with soldiers. We’ll focus on the lesser-known New Yorkers—artisans, laborers, and merchants—who organized resistance before independence was even imagined.
٠ دقيقة
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مبنى البلدية
Behind one of the most imposing government buildings in New York lies one of the darkest chapters of the Revolution. This area was tied to the prison system where thousands of American prisoners died during the British occupation—on land and in the waters of the East River. We’ll also identify the site of the first Presidential Mansion and the original location of the Bank of New York, linking the suffering of the war to the foundations of the new nation.
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كنيسة القديس بولس
At this colonial-era church, we step into both the personal and national consequences of the Revolution. We’ll visit the resting place of a key figure from the 1775 campaign in Quebec and examine how the war forced both patriots and loyalists into exile at different moments. The chapel also witnessed one of the most symbolic early events of the new republic, tying the Revolution directly to the creation of the United States government.
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John Street United Methodist Church
Founded in 1766, this is the oldest Methodist congregation in North America and one of the most important religious sites of early New York. While Anglicanism was the established church, the city was already religiously diverse, especially in areas like the North Ward. Here, we focus on the everyday New Yorkers—artisans, laborers, and immigrants—whose lives shaped the city during the Revolution.
Just behind the church stood the house Thomas Jefferson leased while serving as Secretary of State under George Washington. This stop marks a shift in the story—from revolution to nation-building—where the future of the United States was shaped not only by war, but by negotiation, compromise, and political conflict.
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منطقة ساوث ستريت سي بورت التاريخية
Colonial New York was deeply tied to Britain—commercially, financially, and culturally—but resistance took shape along the waterfront. Here, merchants and sailors pushed back against imperial control. We’ll cover the early violence that erupted in New York before the Boston Massacre, as well as the strategic retreat that preserved Washington’s army and kept the Revolution alive in its earliest days.
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وول ستريت
Wall Street was already a place of power before the Revolution—home to a slave market, a growing financial center, and some of the city’s most prominent residences. At its core lies one of the most consequential intersections in American history, where we encounter the site that became the birthplace of the United States government.
Here, the Revolution, finance, and politics converge. We’ll explore how money, power, and information—sometimes through formal institutions, sometimes through informal networks and espionage—shaped both the war and the nation that followed, on one of the most influential streets in the world.
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القاعة الفيدرالية
At this site, the Revolution transitions into government. Here, George Washington was inaugurated in 1789, and the first Congress met under the new Constitution. We’ll examine how a fragile confederation became a functioning federal system—through financial policy, political compromise, and the early structures that still define the United States today.
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Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum
Trinity Church stood at the center of colonial New York’s religious and political life. Severely damaged during the Great Fire of 1776, it became a symbol of the city’s destruction during the British occupation. Its reconstruction after the war mirrors New York’s broader recovery.
In its churchyard, we connect the Revolution to the early republic through the people who shaped it—founding figures, signers of the Declaration of Independence, financiers, judges, and Treasury officials who moved between commerce, law, and government. Alexander Hamilton, buried here, anchors that story. This is where power consolidated after the war, as the same networks that supported resistance helped build the institutions of the new nation.
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متحف حانة فراونسيس
One of the most important surviving sites of the Revolutionary era, Fraunces Tavern served as a hub of political and military activity. Here, Washington delivered his farewell to his officers in 1783, marking the end of the war. The tavern also operated as a center of communication and intelligence, where merchants, officers, and revolutionaries exchanged information that shaped the conflict.
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بولينج جرين
We end where British power once stood strongest—at the site of Fort George, overlooking Bowling Green. From here, the British controlled New York for seven years, turning it into the military and political center of their North American operations.
What began on July 9, 1776—when Washington’s troops first heard the Declaration of Independence—finds its conclusion here. On November 25, 1783, British forces evacuated the city, and American troops returned. The war in New York had come full circle.
At this final stop, we examine what that transition actually meant: the return of patriot refugees, the departure of loyalists, and the transfer of power from empire to republic. From occupation to independence, the story that began at our first stop ends here.
New York wasn’t a sideshow to the American Revolution—it was the center of it. This tour follows the city’s transformation from a divided colonial port to the first capital of the United States.
Before independence was declared, violence had already erupted here—months before Boston. From that moment, we trace the Revolution across New York: where resistance formed, where Washington’s army struggled to hold the city, and where the Declaration of Independence was first read to the troops on July 9, 1776.
We follow the collapse and survival of the American cause—from the escape from Brooklyn to seven years of British occupation—and end where it all came full circle, with the evacuation of Br...
ما تشمله الجولة
٢ ساعات و ٣٠ دقائق
مُقدم في الإنكليزية & الإسبانية
إلغاء مجاني
بطاقة رقمية
٢ ساعات و ٣٠ دقائق
مُقدم في الإنكليزية & الإسبانية
إلغاء مجاني
بطاقة رقمية
ما تشمله الجولة
جولة إرشادية
الإكرامية
نقاط التلاقي
الانطلاق
43 Park Row
Steps of Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St.
العودة
Bowling Green
Ends at Bowling Green, steps from multiple subway lines, the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and ferries to the Statue of Liberty.