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 Islands, wit... SEE MORE