A vast and fiendish plot : the Confederate attack on New York City /
This book recounts the attempt by Confederate secret agents to burn down Manhattan on the night of November 25, 1864, using what they called Greek fire, an incendiary concoction that ignited spontaneously on contact with air. The fires, set in rooms at various hotels around the city, fizzled from la...
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New York, NY :
Citadel Press,
c2010.
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