In the song "The Schuyler Sisters" one of the lyrics sung is "In the greatest city in the world" in which they they are referring to New York City which at this time is the second largest city in the colonies. To most American's this is probably true as to us it is the greatest city in the world or one of the greatest cities in the world. It has the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and has been featured in hundreds of movies. However this is only looking at it from an American view and is also very nationalistic which is to be expected. Now if we look at how say Great Britain saw the city at the time then maybe we can see an outsider's view of the city. In 1776 after being defeated at Boston the British attacked the Colonial Army at New York City, the total conquest of New York City would take around 3 months culminating in 5 separate  battles as we can see in "Right hand man". This shows that the city was important enough for the British to fight for and capture. The later song also mentions that the British brought thirty-two thousand troops which was one of their largest armies of the war. So as we can see even if the city is not not the "greatest city in the world" it is still a very important city to both a Americans and outsiders. What do you think though? Why do you think Miranda uses the lyrics "In the greatest city in the world" to describe New York City?