Daniel S. Levy writes for Life, Time, and Time-Life Books-which are part of Meredith Special Interest Media-as well as for National Geographic Books. Levy is also the author of Two-Gun Cohen, a biography of Morris Cohen, an English adventurer who became a general in the Chinese army.
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In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it 'spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible—the lower bay and its Island... SEE MORE