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3 unusual facts about 9th Connecticut Regiment


9th Connecticut Regiment

As part of a combined Franco-American attempt to retake British-occupied Newport, Rhode Island, the brigade marched to Rhode Island, where it was involved in the August 29 Battle of Rhode Island.

The regiment was merged into the 2nd Connecticut Regiment on January 1, 1781 at West Point, New York, which was disbanded at the end of the war on November 15, 1783.

That June, the regiment was involved in the Battle of Springfield, in which a British attempt to penetrated from New York City to the Continental Army camp at Morristown was repulsed.



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