{"id":270436,"date":"2026-06-18T03:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270436\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:13:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-exhibition-explores-brooklyns-role-in-the-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270436\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Exhibition Explores Brooklyns Role In The American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History is highlighting Brooklyn&#8217;s pivotal role in the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered&#8221; examines the largest battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Brooklyn in August 1776, shortly after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The exhibition tells the story of the Continental Army&#8217;s first major clash with British forces and the strategic retreat led by George Washington that helped keep the American Revolution alive.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Visitors can explore rare historic maps that show what Brooklyn looked like in 1776, including neighborhoods whose names remain familiar today, such as Bushwick, Flatbush and Gravesend.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Curators say the exhibition not only explores the battle itself, but also how Brooklyn has remembered and commemorated the event over the past 250 years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The free exhibition includes weekly tours and will remain on display through the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History is highlighting Brooklyn&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-270436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}