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By Bill Coughlin, October 17, 2009
The Danbury Raid Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Main Street at Wooster Street, on the left when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | The revolutionary village which centered about this green with its stores of supplies for the army was sacked and burned by a force of two thousand British April 26, 1777 Warned of the gathering militia the raiders departed next . . . — — Map (db m23542) HM |
| On Main Street at West Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Sybil Ludington
On April 26, 1777 this brave sixteen year-old girl rode through the enemy-infested countryside for thirty miles in Putnam County, New York, to warn the local militia that British troops were attacking and plundering Danbury, . . . — — Map (db m25374) HM |
| On Ludingtonville Road (County Route 43) near New York State Route 52. |
| | Sibyl Ludington rode horseback over this road the night of April 26, 1777, to call out Colonel Luddington's regiment to repel the British at Danbury, Conn. — — Map (db m525) HM |
| On U.S. 6 at South Lake Blvd., on the left on U.S. 6. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m22592) HM |
| On Main Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The chief engagement of Connecticut’s only inland battle during the War for Independence was fought approximately 100 yards from this site. Several hundred hastily-mustered militia joined a handful of Continental troops under Generals Benedict . . . — — Map (db m23400) HM |
| On Main Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | British General Tryon’s Raid on Danbury occurred on April 26, 1777. The beginning of the 1777 campaign was the first British invasion and the only pitched battle in Connecticut. Following the burning of Danbury the British troops marched . . . — — Map (db m23412) HM |
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