Adventures in Brooklyn & beyond
August 31st 2013 Brooklyn, the most populous borough of NYC was originally a Dutch village called Breuckelen. In 1776 - six years after James Cook first sighted the coastline of NSW - the Battle of Brooklyn was the first battle fought following the Declaration of Independence as part of the American Revolutionary War. Moving right along, in 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge linked Long Island to Manhattan and Brooklyn rema
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