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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Panthanas" data-source="post: 2219993" data-attributes="member: 10256">Hmmmm...there are a few things, probably more, but here is what I can think of right now:The Battle of Newtown on August 27, 1779.  General John Sullivan with his army of about 5,000 soldiers pushed northward from Pennsylvania with orders from General George Washington to drive the Indians out of the wilderness of New York, to burn their villages and destroy their crops so they could not return.  The army was to push its way northward to the shores of Lake Erie and to capture the British Forts Oswego and Niagara.Mark Twain lived here in Elmira, NY.  He is buried here as well.Ummm...not history per se, but Brian Williams from NBCs Nightly News is from here as is Eileen Collins, the first woman pilot of a Space Shuttle.Thats all I can think of at the moment.EDIT:  How could I forget...Elmira was a prison camp during the Civil War.  My understanding is that it was one of the worst prisons and earned the name "Hell-mira".Elmira is also home to the first Gannett Newspaper (USA Today is a Gannett paper), the Star-Gazette, although it is often referred to as the Star-Regret.</blockquote>