https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 01:58:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/543 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/543#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2015 05:43:48 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=543 On August 19, 1815, the Commerce, an American brig of 200 tons, Captain Misservey commanding, raced through the Narrows under full sail after outrunning two British frigates in the lower Bay.  Someone—Misservey never said who—had paid him 18,000 francs in gold to depart immediately from Bordeaux for New York, and]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/543/feed 0