Sentence examples for evacuation day from inspiring English sources

On Evacuation Day, November 25 , 1783 the British finally marched out, leaving behind a ruined city.

And until World War I, New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day every year to commemorate the British departure from the city at the end of the Revolution.

Fittingly, the book has been published not long after Evacuation Day, the Nov. 25 anniversary of the British departure from New York in 1783.

Governor Clinton gave a banquet at the tavern on Evacuation Day, Nov. 25, 1783, when British troops withdrew from New York.

Col. Hamilton deplored excessive jollification on Evacuation Day which celebrated the departure of the British Army at the end of the Revolutionary War.

Soon after, George Washington's men retreated north, leaving New York in Loyalist hands, not to be liberated again until Evacuation Day, Nov. 25, 1783, the end of the war.

In cooperation with the Dutch embassy in Nairobi, she orchestrated an evacuation Wednesday.

In Galveston, Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas ordered a mandatory evacuation Thursday morning for the city's 57,000 people.

At North Dakota State, which has 14,000 students, school officials ordered an evacuation Friday morning after receiving a separate bomb threat, but had reopened campus by 1 p.m., officials said.

A grenade found in a bag of items donated to a Glendale Goodwill prompted a store evacuation Tuesday evening before it was determined to be inert, officials said.

North Dakota's governor ordered the immediate evacuation Sunday evening of the main Standing Rock encampment following a heavy snowstorm that blew across the state — but it's not yet clear whether the order will have any effect beyond limiting the government's liability.