New York, Nov. 25. – Just 108 years ago to-day the British troops withdrew from New York and the War of the Revolution was over, and the United States was free and independent.  A detail of "The Old Guard" at sunrise this morning hoisted the Stars and Stripes upon the staff of the old ruins in Central Park, known as the Fort, and the unfurling was greeted by the cannon of Wendell's battery. At the same hour the Anderson Zouaves repaired to the battery, and Christopher R. Forbes, a great grandson of John Vanarsdale, one of the men who lived with the exciting events of the revolution, assisted by five men, hoisted a flag, forty-five feet long, while a large crowd gave three resounding cheers for the symbol of liberty, and three more for the occasion which it floated in commemoration of. Soldiers, Grand Army men, patriotic spectators and the government attaches of the barge office all seemed to be profoundly impressed with the sentiment of the occasion, and intense enthusiasm prevailed.

Early this afternoon another and more formal ceremony took place at the Battery, and later the Old Guard sat down at a banquet in their old armory. 

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Thursday,  November 26, 1891, p.1 

Anderson Zouaves Newspaper Clippings. 

Contributed by J. Tierney