New York - July 1976 - in a World in which New England remains the sparkling jewel in the crown of the British Empire.It is the day before Empire Day - 4th July - the day each year when the British Empire marks the brutal crushing of the rebellion dignified by the treachery of the fifty-six delegates to the Continental Congress who were so foolhardy as to sign the infamous Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on that day of infamy in 1776.It...