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Clinton decides to launch a raid into Connecticut in an effort to draw Washington's attention.
He only plans it as a raid, but he also believes that New London can be used as a base for further operations into the interior of New England if a permanent British occupation could be established.
He gives Brigadier General Benedict Arnold command of the forces for the raid.
Arnold is an American, a native of Norwich, Connecticut just up the river from New London, who had betrayed his compatriots to join the British the previous September.
The forces assembled by the British are divided into two battalions, numbering about seventeen hundred men.
The first is under Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Eyre, composed of the 40th and 54th Regiments of Foot and a Loyalist provincial regiment of Cortlandt Skinner's New Jersey Volunteers.
The second battalion is under Arnold's command and consists of the 38th Foot and a variety of Loyalist units, including the Loyal American Regiment and Arnold's provincial regiment, known as the American Legion.
The expedition also includes about one hundred Hessian jägers, a small number of artillerymen, three six-pound guns, and a howitzer, all of which are divided among the battalions.
These troops are embarked on transports and sail on September 4 in the company of a fleet of smaller armed ships, led by Commodore John Bazely in the fifth-rate HMS Amphion.
The fleet anchors about thirty miles (forty-eight kilometers) west of New London to make final preparations, and...
He only plans it as a raid, but he also believes that New London can be used as a base for further operations into the interior of New England if a permanent British occupation could be established.
He gives Brigadier General Benedict Arnold command of the forces for the raid.
Arnold is an American, a native of Norwich, Connecticut just up the river from New London, who had betrayed his compatriots to join the British the previous September.
The forces assembled by the British are divided into two battalions, numbering about seventeen hundred men.
The first is under Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Eyre, composed of the 40th and 54th Regiments of Foot and a Loyalist provincial regiment of Cortlandt Skinner's New Jersey Volunteers.
The second battalion is under Arnold's command and consists of the 38th Foot and a variety of Loyalist units, including the Loyal American Regiment and Arnold's provincial regiment, known as the American Legion.
The expedition also includes about one hundred Hessian jägers, a small number of artillerymen, three six-pound guns, and a howitzer, all of which are divided among the battalions.
These troops are embarked on transports and sail on September 4 in the company of a fleet of smaller armed ships, led by Commodore John Bazely in the fifth-rate HMS Amphion.
The fleet anchors about thirty miles (forty-eight kilometers) west of New London to make final preparations, and...
...sails for New London late on September 5, intending to make a nighttime landing.
However, contrary winds will prevent the transports from reaching the port until it is already daylight on September 6.
However, contrary winds will prevent the transports from reaching the port until it is already daylight on September 6.
The first Harvard–Yale Boat Race—and the first American intercollegiate sporting event—takes place on August 3, 1852.
On May 24, 1843, with the arrival of the shell Whitehall in New Haven, Yale University had founded the first collegiate crew in the United States.
A year later, Harvard founded their boat club.
These boat clubs served primarily a social purpose, until Yale's 1852 issuance of a challenge to Harvard "to test the superiority of the oarsmen of the two colleges".
In this two-mile (3.2 km) contest, Harvard's Oneida prevailed over Yale's Shawmut by about two lengths, with Yale's Undine finishing third.
The first place prize is a pair of black walnut, silver-inscribed trophy oars.
The trophy oars are awarded to Harvard by General Franklin Pierce who in 1853 will become the fourteenth President of the United States of America.
Today the 1852 trophy oars are the oldest intercollegiate athletic prize in North America.
On May 24, 1843, with the arrival of the shell Whitehall in New Haven, Yale University had founded the first collegiate crew in the United States.
A year later, Harvard founded their boat club.
These boat clubs served primarily a social purpose, until Yale's 1852 issuance of a challenge to Harvard "to test the superiority of the oarsmen of the two colleges".
In this two-mile (3.2 km) contest, Harvard's Oneida prevailed over Yale's Shawmut by about two lengths, with Yale's Undine finishing third.
The first place prize is a pair of black walnut, silver-inscribed trophy oars.
The trophy oars are awarded to Harvard by General Franklin Pierce who in 1853 will become the fourteenth President of the United States of America.
Today the 1852 trophy oars are the oldest intercollegiate athletic prize in North America.