"April 27: Payback Time – The Battle of Ridgefield" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 Apr 2020 4:43 p.m. PST |
"On this day in 1777, one day after William Tryon destroyed the Continental Army's supply depot in Danbury with a party of 2,000 British troops and loyalists, a force of American troops and Connecticut militiamen struck back near the town of Ridgefield. Tryon's raid on Danbury took local patriots by surprise; they had assumed the Connecticut town was safe from British coastal raids since it was located two dozen miles — a full day's march — inland. While the British marched toward Danbury during the morning of April 26th, local minutemen and scouts spread the alarm throughout Western Connecticut, but it took a full day to assemble a large enough contingent of men to strike back at the Redcoats…"
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