The Battle of Golden Hill was a clash between British soldiers and the Liberty Boys in the American colonies that occurred on January 19, 1770, in New York City. Along with the Boston Massacre and the Gaspee affair, the event was one of the early violent incidents in what would become the American Revolution.
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