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	Battle of Groton Heights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Groton Heights was a battle of the American Revolutionary War.
		By 1781, the largest military structure on the New London side of the river was Fort Trumbull, which was still unfinished and vulnerable to attack.
		East of the river on Groton Heights, Fort Griswold commanded the harbor and the surrounding territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Groton_Heights (817 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Across the Thames River in Groton on top of a high hill overlooking the harbor stood Fort Griswold, which about 800 veteran British troops under Colonel Edmund Eyre set out to capture.
		Years later, in 1793, those who had their homes burned were finally compensated by grants of land in a part of the Western Reserve, appropriately named the Firelands.
		Harris, William E. The Battle of Groton Heights..., rev. Charles Allyn.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1763_1818/british_nl_groton.htm (452 words)

	Homes
		This house was used as a small hospital for the wounded in the battle of Groton Heights.
		It was used as a larger hospital for the wounded during the battle of Groton Heights in 1781.
		Across the street from this house is the Groton Heights Baptist Church.
	www.groton.k12.ct.us /schools/wm/groton/HOMES.HTM (880 words)

	Welcome to the Town of Groton, Connecticut
		Groton was settled by Europeans as part of New London when John Winthrop, Jr., came from Massachusetts Bay in 1646 to found Pequot Plantation at the mouth of the Thames.
		Groton seamen sailed to the ends of the earth hunting seals and whales.
		Groton became known as the Submarine Capital of the World when the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics delivered 74 diesel submarines to the Navy in World War II.
	www.town.groton.ct.us /about/history.asp (411 words)

	Seaport Autographs - seaportautographs.htm - norm@seaportautographs.com
		In addition there is the most complete bibliography of the battle included, as well as most of the publications relating to the battle including the latest paper back edition, copies of letters of the time and other pertinent material.
		Colonel William (1743-1781), throughout the Revolution, was a soldier involved in the defenses of Groton and later Stonington and New London He was the third officer in charge of the fort at Groton Heights, preceded by Edward Mott and Oliver Coit.
		The Battle of Groton Heights, September 6, 1781 by Charles Allyn, 399pp, reprint with paper cover, edited by Norman F. Boas with new introduction and 16pp of photographs of original documents relating to the battle, Seaport Autographs, Mystic, Connecticut, 1999.
	www.seaportautographs.com /americanrevolution.htm (3489 words)

	Groton Long Point News - Page 2
		GROTON -- Andy Maynard and Lenny Winkler, candidates for the 18th state Senate seat, both said they backed a proposal to freeze property tax assessments at a Monday night forum on property tax reform.
		GROTON -- Health-care providers are weighing in on the nation's health-care crisis.
		Groton -- Under the town manager's proposed budget, community police officers who have become familiar faces in the Poquonnock Bridge and Navy Housing areas won't be around their respective neighborhoods as...
	www.topix.net /city/groton-long-point-ct/page2 (884 words)

	The Battle of Groton Heights: African-American Heros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		There were many heroes in this battle but two of the African-Americans in this battle were some of the most heroic.
		They were both freed slaves who risked their lives to fight against the Britsh in one of the last Revolutionary War Battles.
		Jordon and his wife both lived in Groton in the later days of the war, and the only thing that separated them in the end was the battle of Groton Heights.
	www.groton.k12.ct.us /schools/wm/oralHistory/tbogh.html (439 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Accounts of the state’s battles abound, however, and the most useful articles on military subjects are listed below, though every town historian pays special attention to military operations anywhere nearby, so that local histories should not be neglected.
		The battles at Danbury and Ridgefield in April, 1777, have been well studied, but Christopher Ward’s map of the invasion route is not correct: the British reembarked at Compo Beach, where they had disembarked.
		The dreadful massacre at Groton Heights during a raid against New London, led by Benedict Arnold, has been graphically and even gruesomely described in a number of eyewitness and narrative accounts.
	www.ctheritage.org /biography/colonytostate/militaryhist.htm (1348 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - A New Web Site on The Battle of Groton Heights & Burning of New ...
		The new site offers information on Groton and New London through the American Revolution, The Burning of New London and Battle of Groton Heights and The Aftermath of one of the most forgotten events in US History has been launched at
		September 2006 brought the 225th Anniversary of the Siege at Yorktown and the raid on New London and Battle of Groton Heights giving re-enactors from across North America and the United Kingdom a chance to re-live and add to the proud history of the United States.
		The website is not only filled with information and accounts of the Battle and Burning but of photographs of buildings that survived the burning of the town and some that were later demolished as well as information on the aftermath of the events and the effect on the local economy.
	i-newswire.com /pr82186.html (724 words)

	Operations: New England Theater
		History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill.
		History of the Battle of Lexington on the morning of the 19th April, 1775.
		A Bibliography of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/revbib/neo.htm (2294 words)

	The Battle of Fort Griswold
		Early in the morning following the battle, came a young woman of twenty-three, Anna Warner,-who in the War of 1812 became renowned through the country as "Mother Bailey" of the "Martial Petticoat,"-searching for her uncle, who the day before had hurried to the aid of the garrison.
		Anna hurried back to the farm with the sad news, and quickly saddled the family horse, on which she placed the mother and one of the older children, and taking the baby in her arms, herself on foot, returned to the dying father and laid the child beside him.
		And so all through Groton and the neighboring towns were seen, during those dreadful days, processions bearing the dead and wounded to the homes and firesides they had laid down their lives to protect.
	www.newrivernotes.com /us/griswold.htm (3361 words)

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		The Battle of Groton Heights and The Burning of New London -- September 6, 1781
		The Raid on New London and Groton Heights had been planned over a period of time, and hastened by the capture of the HMS Hanna one of Sir Henry Clinton's prize supply ships by the New London Privateer Minerva in the summer of 1781.
		The plan hatched by Clinton set forth one of his favorite manners of waging warfare which was to conduct a lightning raid on a seaport with torch in hand.
	www.battleofgrotonheights.com (325 words)

	Yantic
		In the action—a bloody one in which the sailors and marines of the naval landing force charged on the run into withering Confederate gunfire and suffered accordingly grievous casualties in the frontal assault—Fort Fisher was finally taken on 15 January.
		During the battle, Yantic lost three men—two on 15 January and one, who had been wounded mortally on the 15th, who died on the 20th.
		In October 1881, Yantic also took part in observances commemorating the centennial of the Battle of Groton Heights and in festivities celebrating the centennial of the American victory at Yorktown, Va.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/y1/yantic.htm (1203 words)

	WallBuilders \| Resources \| Black History Issue 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		The Battle of Yorktown ensued, and the British — without their navy to provide reinforcements or supplies and with no way to retreat off the peninsula on which they were trapped — finally surrendered.
		Prince Whipple fought in the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and the Battle of Rhode Island in 1778.
		When reinforcements failed to arrive during that battle, the Americans were forced to retreat in the face of heavy British attacks, especially from the dreaded Hessian mercenaries.
	www.wallbuilders.com /resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=107 (2978 words)

	EDWARD PERKINS OF NEW HAVEN, CONN. page 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		was set off to Groton, and where, in 1709, he purchased additional land.
		He married, December 12, 1715, Lydia Davis, and he, his wife and several sons and grandsons are buried in the Perkins yard in Groton, where there is also a gravestone of Henry Perkins, who died in 1750, aged 67 years, whose antecedents are unknown.
		, born in 1718; killed at the Battle of Groton Heights Sept. 6, 1781.
	www.e-z.net /~whatweb/EP/EP_P82.HTM (202 words)

	Bill Memorial Library \| Fort Griswold
		East of the river on Groton Heights, a completed work, Fort Griswold, commanded the harbor and the surrounding countryside.
		In the centennial year, 1881, the top was enclosed and the monument was increased to a height of 134 feet.
		After the battle on the heights, many of the American wounded were placed in this house.
	www.billmemorial.org /griswold.htm (1115 words)

	American History Titles
		The Battle of Groton Heights: A collection of Narratives, Official Reports, Records, Etc. of the Storming of Fort Griswold....
		Laid-in is a "Programme" for the Centennial Celebration of the Battle and Massacre of Groton Heights and a dedication dated Sept. 6, 1911 to the Memorial Entrance to the park which contains the remnants of the fort.
		Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison has been quoted as saying that this book is "the best tactical account of the battle I have ever read." The author provides a balanced and very responsible account of the Battle of the Chesapeake between the British and French navies on September 5, 1781.
	www.townsendbooks.com /amerhist.htm (2171 words)

	American Revolutionary War Titles
		Roberts' was one of the first novelists to give credible exposure to the Battle of Valcor Island which, although a loss for the Americans, slowed the British advance down Lake Champlain to connect with the Hudson enough so that they had to return to Canada for the winter of 1776.
		It traces the escape of the American Army, under the command of Benedict Arnold, down Lake Champlain to the southern end of the lake to construct a small fleet of vessels to meet and oppose the British fleet on the northern end of the lake.
		Although the Battle of Valcour Island was considered a loss to the American forces its outcome was significant enough to delay the British advance down the lake and was a major reason for the ultimate victory at Saratoga a year later.
	www.townsendbooks.com /amerrevo.htm (9497 words)

	Information for New London, Connecticut
		Prior to the Battle of Groton Heights, New London was burned by the traitorous Benedict Arnold in the attempts to destroy the colonial privateer fleet and storage of goods and naval stores within the city.
		The main defensive fort for New London, Fort Griswold, located across the Thames River in Groton, CT, was well known by Arnold who sold its secrets to the British fleet so they could avoid its artillery fire.
		Connecticut's independent legislature, in its January session of 1784, made New London one of the first two cities (along with New Haven) brought from de facto to formalized incorporations.
	www.newlondoncounty.com /local/cityinfo.html (674 words)

	Amazon.com: GROTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Groton Heights and the burning of New London, Connecticut, September 6 and 7, 1931 by Ernest E Rogers (Unknown Binding - 1931)
		The Battle of Groton Heights: A collection of narratives, official reports, records, etc. of the storming of Fort Griswold (Unknown Binding - 1999)
		Groton houses: Some notes on the history of old homesteads in Groton, Massachusetts by Virginia A May (Unknown Binding - 1978)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&tag2=francogene-20&keywords=GROTON&search-type=ss&index=blended&page=1 (429 words)

	Fort Griswold Home Page
		After the battle on the heights, the story goes that some of the wounded soldiers were put in a wagon by the British and rolled down the hill.
		Occupants of the house brought the soldiers in and tended to their wounds; there is a sign on the house to this affect.
		The pages are dedicated in memory of all (British and American) who were involved in the raid on New London/Groton and in the Battle of Fort Griswold/Groton Heights on September 6, 1781.
	www.revwar.com /ftgriswold (1579 words)

	References for Battles and Skirmishes in 1781
		Babits, Lawrence E. A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens.
		Galvez's Combat Diary for the Battle of Pensacola, 1781." Edited by Maury Baker and Margaret Bissler Haas.
		The Battle of Pensacola March 9 to May 8, 1781: Spain's Final Triumph Over Great Britainin the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.revwar75.com /battles/ref1781.htm (1266 words)

	City of Groton
		The City of Groton Parks system encompasses over sixty acres of prime real estate with scenic views throughout the City.
		Use of the following facilities requires a permit from the City of Groton Parks and Recreation Department.
		The City of Groton has six (6) picnic pavilions with charcoal grills at Washington Park - a perfect place to relax socialize during those lazy days of summer.
	www.cityofgroton.com /parks_default.asp (316 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Fort Griswold
		One of the ghastliest incidents of the Revolution took place at Groton, Connecticut, during the last engagement of the war in the north.
		The wide harbor between the towns was defended by two forts a mile or two north of the mouth, Trumbull and Griswold, the latter in Groton.
		Such was the battle of Groton Heights; and such, as far as my imperfect manner and language can describe, a part of the sufferings which we endured.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1973/6/1973_6_69.shtml (1239 words)

	Revolutionary War Soldiers of the Cheney / Clark Family
		It is not known if he was in the Battle of Lake George, but he was in Col. John Greenleaf’s (Newbury) Regiment from the summer of 1754 (or winter of 1754-5) to 20 Mar 1756.
		Carleton decided that, after expending the energy in battle and realizing that the Americans still held Crown Point and Ticonderoga, which had a sizeable force, it was too late in the season to continue the campaign.
		This was the battle where Mary Ludwig Hays became “Molly Pitcher.” Her husband wounded, she went into the middle of the action to bring water to the thirsty and tend the wounded.
	www.hannahdustin.com /soldiers.htm (5209 words)

	Connecticut sub center has sinking feeling
		GROTON, Conn. — Nothing's sacred and nobody's exempt in eastern Connecticut's battle to save the country's oldest submarine base from closing and moving many of its men and machines 1,047 miles south to Kings Bay, Ga.
		The Groton utility department donates space for Fay's war room equipped with computers and telephones.
		It has since the dark days of the Revolutionary War, when a turncoat named Benedict Arnold led British troops against the patriots in the Battle of Groton Heights.
	www.oxfordpress.com /news/content/shared/news/nation/stories/06/30__CONN_BASE.html (881 words)

	New London, Connecticut
		The Connecticut College Arboretum is a fine, 750 acre (3 km²) arboretum and botanical garden.
		New London lies across the Thames from the town of Groton, Connecticut, home of a United States Navy submarine base and of "EB", the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation, which built most existing U.S. nuclear-powered submarines there.
		As world research headquarters of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, New London and Groton have given birth to many drugs, although the corporations best known drug, Viagra was discovered in the UK.
	www.creekin.net /c7463-n210-new-london-connecticut.html (919 words)

	Historic Preservation, Education and Enjoyment
		A website dedicated to the attack on New London and the Battle of Groton Heights has been launched at www.battleofgrotonheights.com...
		The Battle of Ft.Trumbull first fought in the American Revolution when 23 brave defenders fired a volley at the oncoming British and Loyal American troops in 1781 and then again vs the property owners in the infamous Kelo vs New London case has begun to heat up again.
		After the battle of Ft.Trumbull finally ended with the city and people of New London winning...
	www.onemilliondollarsforpreservation.com (1732 words)

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