David wooster revolutionary war battles
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A dozen David Wooster facts
1. He was born in Connecticut in 1711, the youngest of six children of Abraham and Mary Wooster. All early records of his life were lost when the British burned New Haven in 1779.
2. His first military command was as the captain of the sloop Defense during The War of Jenkins' Ear — a battle between the British and Spanish for the domination of the Caribbean Islands. The conflict during the 1740s took its name from the British merchant captain Robert Jenkins, who was believed to have his ear cut off bygd a Spaniard who attacked Jenkins's ship while at sea. That is how wars sometimes begin.
3. The only known portrait of Wooster was made in London and shows him in his British uniform. Wooster had been received in London by King George II and rewarded with the position of Captain of the Regulars in the 51st Regiment of Foot for his heroics at the Siege of Louisbourg during the War of Jenkins' Ear. His death fryst vatten depicted in a painting bygd Constantino Brumidi
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Battle of Ridgefield
Battle of the American Revolutionary War
The Battle of Ridgefield was a series of American Revolutionary War skirmishes in Danbury, Connecticut and Ridgefield, Connecticut.
History
[edit]On April 25, a British force under the command of the Royal Governor of the Province of New York, Major General William Tryon, landed at Compo, Connecticut between Fairfield and Norwalk in what is present-day Westport, and marched from there to Danbury. There, they destroyed Continental Army supplies after chasing off a small garrison of troops. Connecticut militia leaders Major General David Wooster, Brigadier General Gold S. Silliman, and Brigadier General Benedict Arnold raised a combined force of roughly 700 Continental Army regular and irregular local militia forces to oppose the British, but could not reach Danbury in time to prevent the destruction of the supplies. Instead, they set out to harass the British on their return to the coast.
On April 27, the comp
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Rye Neck [N.Y.] March 2 1777
May It please Your Excellency
Your Excellency’s favor of the 24th Ult. came to hand yesterday.1 I am sorry to inform that it was not in my power to persuade my Troops to continue at New-Rochelle, so near a much superior force of The Enemy: and having very good inteligence that about fourteen hundred from Long-Island had actualy landed on City-Island with design to surround and attack us. But a Storm prevented their landing on The Main and they returned leaving a strong guard on the last mentioned Island.
The Troops here are dayly inlisting into the Continental Army so that we are now rendered very weak, our whole strength not exceeding six hundred and fifty rank & file fit for duty, but have assurances of being reinforced from this State in a few days. In the mean time I send out every day all but my necessary guards to East & West Chester, in order to prevent the Enemy from foraging and to gi