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THBBenedict Arnold's Raid on New London, 1781
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Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser. Boston, MA: J. Gill, September 20, 1781. 4pp, 10 x 15.5 in.
Historically important issue reporting on Benedict Arnold's brutal and terrifying raid on New London, CT, the last British victory of the Revolutionary War that occurred days earlier on September 6, 1781.
New London was invaded, sacked, plundered, pillaged, and burned by two Divisions of British troops after 29 British Ships appeared off the harbor. The journal reports:
The most valuable part of the town was reduced to ashes, and all the stores. At three o'clock they began to quit the town . . . and were pursued by our brave citizens with the spirit and ardour of veterans, and drove on board their boats. The troops were commanded by that infamous traitor to his country, Benedict Arnold, 'the Dark Eagle', who headed the division which marched to this town. By this calamity it is judged that more than one hundred families are deprived of their habitations, and most of them of their all. Sixty dwelling- houses and 84 stores were burnt.
An extract of a letter from General Francis Marion recounts events surrounding the British invasion and burning of Georgetown in South Carolina.
The journal also includes an extract of a letter from Major General Nathaniel Greene in Santee, SC, in which Lieutenant Colonel "Light Horse Harry" Lee, who is serving under Greene's command, is discussed:
Lieutenant Colonel Lee at Dorchester took all the wagon horses and wagons belonging to a convoy of provisions going up to Lord Rawdon. Colonel Wade Hampton made a charge on a party of the enemy's horse at the Quarter-House, and took there and at Strawberry upwards of 50 prisoners and several officers. Colonel Hampton with other detachments, burnt four vessels loaded principally with valuable stores for the use of the British army.
An extract of a letter relays important intelligence from George Washington, in which he announces the arrival in the Chesapeake Bay of Admiral de Grasse with 28 ships of the line. "The next day he landed 3000 troops on the south side of the James River, in order to form a junction with the Marquis de la Fayette. The fleet on their passage took a packet from Charlestown with [the previously mentioned] Lord Rawdon on board bound to Europe. The Grand Fleet have taken their station from Middle Ground to Cape Henry."
From Baltimore, a report states "On Thursday last arrived in this city, their Excellencies General Washington and the Count de Rochambeau...Every class of citizens seemed to vie with each other in showing marks of respect to this illustrious pair of Defenders of the Rights of Mankind."
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