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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 (search)
regulars and Tories, to commit atrocities in Connecticut. Arnold crossed the Sound, from Long Island, and on Sept. 6, 1781, landed his troops on each side of the Thames, below New London. He plundered and burned that town. and a part of his force took Fort Griswold, opposite, by storm. It was gallantly defended by Colonel Ledyard and a garrison of 150 poorly armed militiamen. Only six of the garrison were killed in the conflict, but after the surrender the British officer in command (Colonel Eyre) murdered Ledyard with his sword, and, refusing to give quarter to the garrison, seventy-three were massacred. Then the wounded were placed in a baggage-wagon and sent down the slope towards the river, with the intention of drowning them in the stream at its foot, but the vehicle was caught by an apple-tree. The cries of the sufferers could be heard above the crackling of the burning town by persons across the river. With this atrocious expedition the name of Benedict Arnold disappear
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moulton, Louise Chandler 1835- (search)
Moulton, Louise Chandler 1835- Author; born in Pomfret, Conn., April 10, 1835; married William U. Moulton in 1855. Her writings include This, that, and the other; Juno Clifford; Firelight stories; Ourselves and our neighbors; Miss Eyre from Boston and others; In the Garden of dreams (poems); Random Rambles; Lazy tours in Spain and elsewhere, etc. She edited the Last harvest and Garden secrets, and the collected poems (with biography) of Philip Bourke. She also edited a volume of selections from Arthur O'Shaughnessy, with a biographical sketch.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New London. (search)
New London. On Sept. 6, 1781, Benedict Arnold, with Colonel Eyre, of the British army, led a motley force of British and German regulars and American Tories to destroy New London, Conn. The object of this raid on the New England coast was to call back the troops under Washington, then on their campaign against Cornwallis in Virginia. The invaders landed below New London, and, first applying the torch to stores on the wharves, finally laid almost the whole town in ashes, with several vessels. Fifteen vessels, with effects of the fleeing inhabitants, escaped up the river. The property destroyed was valued at $486,000. It is said that Arnold stood in the belfry of a church almost in sight of his birthplace and saw the burning of the town with the coolness of a Nero. The old Court-House, New London. After the war, a committee was appointed by the legislature of Connecticut to make an estimate of the value of property destroyed by the British on the coast of that State; and in 1