There’s a house up here in Washington Heights, off 162nd [Street] and Edgecombe Avenue, called the Morris-Jumel Mansion. The house was George Washington’s impromptu headquarters as he and his men ran for their lives from the 32,000 British troops storming Manhattan during the American Revolution. Years later, after the war was won, it was the site... - http://tedroden.tumblr.com/post...