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At dawn, on Sunday, May 19, 1782, “a large new schooner” moved steadily eastward across Long Island Sound. At the helm was Capt. James…
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By April 1782, the war in America was supposed to be over. It had been nearly six months since Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army…
In the spring of 1841, a correspondent from the Hartford Courant went to East Windsor, Connecticut looking for an elderly man who was a…
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New London’s harbor was the center of Connecticut’s wartime naval activity for the duration of the eight-year American Revolution. Because of its recognized importance,…
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It is considered the oldest, continuously serving military unit in the United States. The 1st Company, Governors Foot Guard has as much a storied…
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In early September 1781, General Sir Henry Clinton, the British Commander in Chief in America, found himself facing a combined Franco-American force poised to…