Long's Regiment
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|dates=1776-1777
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|battles=Battle of Fort Ann
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{{Campaignbox|title=Saratoga campaign, 1777
|battles=Ticonderoga – Hubbardton – Fort Ann – Oriskany – Bennington – 1st Saratoga (Freeman's Farm) – 2nd Saratoga (Bemis Heights)
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Long's Regiment was an infantry regiment that was raised on May 14, 1776 at New Castle, New Hampshire under Colonel Pierse Long for service with the Continental Army. The regiment was stationed at Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence on Lake Champlain and fought a delaying action at Fort Ann, New York on July 8, 1777 against the advance units of John Burgoyne's army. The regiment was disbanded at the end of July 1777 in northern New York as the one year enlistments of the men ran out before the main engagements of the Saratoga Campaign. Col. Long and some of the men of the regiment joined other New Hampshire regiments that fought at Saratoga.
Members of the Regiment
Sources
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=XSDnxlK1sMUC State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire. State Builders Publishing Manchester, NH 1903]
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100608052652/http://www.history.army.mil/reference/revbib/nh.htm Bibliography of the Continental Army in New Hampshire] compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History
Category:Military units and formations established in 1776
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