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The American Revolution
...An Evolution of A Cultural History is a thirteen part, half-hour
series being developed by Antonio A. Montanari, Jr. The individual
stories of this unique series will be a pictorial history of the ethnic
make-up of North Americans from it's inception by the Italian, Atlantic
explorer, Giovanni Cabato, who sailed for King Henry VII of England,
then known as John Cabot, who landed on the coast of Nova Scotia's
Cape Breton in 1497. Mr. Montanari is also working on a book on this
topic.
August 27, 1776, the battle of Long Island
at Brooklyn. British General Howe had surrounded Washington's troops
in Brooklyn with a promise to his command of a surrender of the American
troops. Washington had a brilliant strategy to withdraw his troops
under heavy fog conditions into New Jersey. Had Washington been captured
in this battle there would be no America. Today's American would be
ruled by the Queen of England, as she is still ruler of Canada. Brooklyn
anchored many British battle ships in Wallabout Bay that included
the notorious prison ship the "Jersey". Hundreds of men and some women
went down with the ship, still recessed in the muddied bottom of Wallabout
Bay with the remains of these honorable men and women who gave their
lives for what America is today.
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Mrs.
Stephen V. White, a founding member of the Fort Greene Chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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The
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY
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of the monument at Fort Greene in Brooklyn to honor these brave
men and some women, was initiated by a founding member of the
Fort Greene Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
(DAR), Mrs. Stephen V. White. She successfully raised $100,000
from the government and a matching fund from the general public
to find the site and build the monument. The monument was dedicated
by President Taft in 1908. It is built with a crypt with over
11,000 remains of the people who died on the Jersey and other
ships. We have Professor Fred Halla, Owner and Chief-Editor
of the Brooklyn Journal Publications, Professor Bernard Brennan
and Margaret Skinner, Regent of the Fort Greene Chapter of the
DAR, as experts in the Battle of Brooklyn and the preservation
of the monument who are encouraging the U.S. Department of Interior
to declare Fort Greene monument a National Shrine to establish
a new sense of history and patriotism for generations to come.
The remains, laid in the crypt, need to be continually recognized
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Location
filming in Springfield, MA; West Springfield, MA; Boston, MA; Old
Sturbridge, MA; New York, NY; Brooklyn Library; Fort Greene, Brooklyn,
NY.
From
left to right: Professor Bernard Brennan, Mrs. Margaret Skinner
and Professor Fred Halla Mrs. Skinner is Regent of the National
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Greene
Chapter.
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Antonio A. Montanari, Jr.
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