Free City of Tri-Insula

Proper noun

the Free City of Tri-Insula

1. (US, historical) A proposed city-state comprising Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island, put forward on January 6th, 1861, by the mayor of New York City, Fernando Wood, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War.
   • The commercial interests of New York were ever opposed to war. Meetings were held repeatedly in January, 1861, to petition Congress for peace. Meanwhile Mayor Fernando Wood proposed to the Common Council that Manhattan Island, Long Island and Staten Island should secede from the Union and...1925, William Thompson Bonner, “New York’s Military History—Events and Personnel, ‘Civil War’, Wood’s Proposed Free City”, in New York: The World’s Metropolis, 1623–4—1923–4. A Presentation of the...
   • “Are you trying to tell me that the mayor of New York wants to proclaim independence from the United States of America?” asked Pinkerton. “The council approved the plan in January,” Mannion said, delighted by the reaction he had so deliberately provoked. “They’re going to merge Manhattan, Staten...2011, Dominic Lagan, chapter 3, in The Coming Storm (A Red Mannion Novel), Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 34