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He is a past trustee of The Forman School in Litchfield, CT and is a past chairman of the board of The Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. A frequent guest on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and Bloomberg TV, he is also the best-selling author of The War at the Shore, which chronicles the complexities of the real estate development process.
Tryon's Raid occurred in July 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, in which 2700 men, led by British Major General William Tryon, raided the Connecticut ports of New Haven, Fairfield, and Norwalk. They destroyed military and public stores, supply houses, and ships as well as private homes, churches, and other public buildings.
In the months leading up to the raid, Fairfield had developed a reputation for providing materiel and personnel to the continental war effort, with a great many privateers passing through Black Rock Harbor. On July 5, 1779, the British landed at New Haven, raided the town and the nearby Black Rock Fort, and then returned to Long Island. Gen.
A 1780 map showing movements prior to the battle: A: British movements to Danbury B: American movements toward Danbury C:British movements toward The state of Connecticut was not a scene of conflict during the first two years of the American Revolutionary War, even though the war had begun in neighboring Massachusetts in April 1775, and New York City had been taken by the British in the New ...
The Raid on Sag Harbor was launched on May 21, 1777, but due to a storm and rough seas the raiding party put back to shore at Guilford, Connecticut to wait out the storm. Then on May 23, 1777, three weeks after the Battle of Ridgefield , Col. Meigs and 170 men from New Haven left Guilford, Connecticut , in 13 whale boats and two armed sloops ...
Location of Groton, Connecticut. The Battle of Groton Heights (also known as the Battle of Fort Griswold, and occasionally called the Fort Griswold massacre) was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 6, 1781 between a small Connecticut militia force led by Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard and the more numerous British forces led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold ...
Shore-based business leaders repeatedly said the horrors of the war in Ukraine far outweigh the impacts on the local economy on the shore. Still, they say local shops may face worker shortages ...
The Battle of Norwalk (also known as the Battle of West Rocks or Battle of the Rocks) was a series of skirmishes between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. The attack was one part of a series of raids on coastal Connecticut towns collectively known as Tryon's raid .