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There’s also an Evacuation Day (Boston). It’s still an official holiday. It is also March 17, so the Irish getting St. Patrick’s Day off may be more a happy historical coincidence than a true remembrance.

Here’s a nice article on Evacuation Day New York that was on Realclearhistory.com today if you prefer reading to watching Tobra’s video. https://earlyamericanists.com/2014/11/25/the-story-of-evacuation-day/ It is a forgotten holiday now, but according to the article it was widely celebrated well into the 1800s. I hadn’t heard of it either until I came across the article.
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