Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 204
entalong very slowly—sometimes not beingtouched for years at a time—and it was notcompleted until 1735. Even then anothertwenty years or more passed before the can-non were added. The great battery extended from the[188] THE BATTERY AND THE FORT present Greenwich Street and Battery Placeto where… … The Fort and Battery in 1740. the years between that time and this, the landhas been gradually filled in, forming thepresent Battery Park. When Queen Anne ascended the throneof England in 1702, the fort became FortAnne, and with the beginning of the reignsof the Georges in 1714 it became Fort [.89]…
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