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Excellent! You used Loring McMillan's Map. I can finally see how the 'raid' ensued!
Commented Jun 16, 2011 on "After consulting those gentlemen (in whom you could confide) who were best acquainted with the island"; Sullivan's Staten Island Raid (Part III) at Walking the Berkshires
"After consulting those gentlemen (in whom you could confide) who were best acquainted with the island"; Sullivan's Staten Island Raid (Part III)
There were just two Continental infantry regiments and some New Jersey militia on the front lines in August of 1777 to defend against loyalist raids from Staten Island. Col. Elias Dayton's 3rd NJ was posted near Newark and and Col. Matthias Ogden's regiment at Elizabethtown. In As We Were - Th...
Trying to locate where Col Dongan was wounded on Staten island. I am specualting it was near Prince's Bay. Do you know if the Col.s Will has survived?
Commented Jun 13, 2011 on "Through marshes and ditches and mire frequently up to her knees"; Sullivan's Staten Island Raid (Part VIII) at Walking the Berkshires
"Through marshes and ditches and mire frequently up to her knees"; Sullivan's Staten Island Raid (Part VIII)
There is something almost quaint about the conventions of civility among gentlemen of the officer class in 18th century warfare. There was nothing civil about the abduction of non combatants, the looting of private property, or the treatment of enlisted prisoners by both sides during the Amer...
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