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2 unusual facts about Tryon's raid


Battle of New Haven

See Tryon's raid for Battle of New Haven (American Revolutionary War), a 1779 American Revolutionary War battle in New Haven, Connecticut, during which British forces captured Black Rock Fort

Tryon's raid

Tryon assembled a force of 2,600 men, and embarked them on a fleet commanded by Sir George Collier.


Alan Sharp

Sharp, who is returning to his roots, after scripting Hollywood classics such as Ulzana's Raid and Night Moves, has married the narrative complexity of the classic Western and film noir, to an earthy Scottish naturalism.

Alfred Taylor Dale

In 1896, he commanded the Particular Service Squadron of six ships, specially commissioned in reply to a congratulatory telegram from Kaiser Wilhelm II to President Paul Kruger of South Africa on the repulse of Dr. Jameson's Raid.

August Kautz

Transferred to the Western Theater, Kautz later assisted in operations as a colonel with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry against Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's highly successful raid behind Union lines in Indiana and Ohio during June–July 1863 and under the command of Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside at the Battle of Knoxville from September to December 1863.

Baron Tryon

Charles George Barrington Tryon (b. 1976),; he is a godson of the Prince of Wales and a former Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II.

Billy Two Hats

Filmed on-location in Israel, Billy Two Hats is from a script by Scottish writer Alan Sharp, the screenwriter of Rob Roy and Ulzana's Raid.

Boonville, Missouri

During the American Civil War, the community was fought over and held by both sides including in the Battle of Boonville on June 17, 1861, a month before the First Battle of Bull Run which gave the Union control of the Missouri River; and 2nd Battle of Boonville on September 13, 1861; and its capture by Sterling Price in 1864 in Price's Raid.

Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon

To help her recover from her medical treatments, Tryon became very interested in alternative medicine and a wide variety of spiritual practices; she also decided to undertake a retreat in the Himalayas.

Dwight William Tryon

Tryon traveled and sketched Europe with his wife, and met Abbott Handerson Thayer and his wife with whom he became friends.

In addition to his painting, Tryon taught at Smith College from 1886 to 1923, visiting part time to critique students' work and, late in his career, establishing the Tryon Gallery of Art.

Edward Tryon

Edward P. Tryon is an American scientist from Terre Haute, Indiana and a professor of physics at Hunter College in Manhattan.

General Lew Wallace Study

He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, participating in the Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, and Battle of Monocacy as well as managing operations for the Union Army in Indiana in July 1863 when Confederate general John Hunt Morgan invaded the state during Morgan's Raid.

Grey's raid

In response to the threat to Newport, General Sir Henry Clinton ordered 4,000 men under General Charles Grey to prepare for transport to Rhode Island while Admiral Lord Richard Howe sailed from New York to oppose d'Estaing.

Grierson's Raid

The movie The Horse Soldiers, directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers, and the Harold Sinclair novel of the same name on which it is based, are fictional variations of Grierson's Raid.

Indian Land Grants

In 1786,during Logan's Raid, General Benjamin Logan of Kentucky captured and adopted a Shawnee youngster named Spamagelabe, who came to be known as captain Logan.

James R. Tryon

After serving briefly at the United States Naval Hospital in New York City, Tryon spent the last two years of the Civil War at Pensacola, Florida, caring for sick and wounded officers and men of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Manton, Kentucky

John Hunt Morgan, the Confederate raider, passed through this area on some of his raids into Kentucky.

Maplesville, Alabama

In 1865, the train depot was destroyed in a raid by Union general James H. Wilson, as Wilson’s Raiders marched on to Selma.

Mark Schweizer

Schweizer is the president and editor of St. James Music Press in Tryon, North Carolina.

Nathaniel Fillmore

He was the first of only four fathers (the other three being Dr. George Tryon Harding, Sr., Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and George H. W. Bush) to live through the entire presidency of a son.

New Pekin, Indiana

On July 11, 1863, while crossing Blue River near New Pekin, Captain William J. Davis of Morgan's Raid and some of his men were captured by 73rd Indiana Volunteers and a detachment of the 5th U.S. Regulars.

Nicholas Herkimer

When he learned of the siege of Fort Stanwix to the west in late July 1777, he ordered the Tryon County militia to assemble at Fort Dayton.

North Carolina Highway 108

The section from Tryon to Mill Spring closely follows the front range of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Perth, New York

Mike Tyson, boxer, was a one-time resident of the Tryon School for Boys in the town.

Richard Lockridge

Richard Orson Lockridge (September, 26, 1898 in St. Joseph, Missouri - June 19, 1982 in Tryon, North Carolina) was an American writer of detective fiction.

Samuel Adams Drake

In 1864, he was colonel of the 17th Kansas Volunteers, commanding the post of Paola, Kansas, during Price's invasion of Missouri in that year.

St. Albans Raid

Young had become a prisoner of war after the Battle of Salineville in Ohio ended Morgan's Raid the year before; he later escaped to Canada (then part of the British Empire), and returned to the South, where he proposed raids on the Union from the Canadian border to build the Confederate treasury and force the Union Army to protect the northern border and divert troops from the South.

Thomas Hines

Hines visited the local Copperhead leader, Dr. William A. Bowles, in French Lick, and learned that there would be no formal support for Morgan's Raid.

Ulzana's Raid

The film was shot on location in the United States southeast of Tucson, Arizona at the Coronado National Forest and in Nogales, Arizona as well as the Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada.

Waldo Covered Bridge

The bridge was used as an access route in April 1865 by Wilson's Raiders during the American Civil War, a cavalry group led by Union Army General James H. Wilson.

War of the Regulation

Tryon had an extremely lavish home built in 1770 in New Bern (now known as Tryon Palace).

William Schurman

Schurman remained loyal to Britain during the American revolution and, in 1783, immigrated to Tryon on St. John's Island (later Prince Edward Island).


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