Complete Roster of Colonel David Waterbury Jr. 'S Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers

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Excerpt from Complete Roster of Colonel David Waterbury Jr. 'S Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers: The First Regiment of Infantry Responding to a Call for Volunteers for the Defence of New York City Against the British in the American Revolution A glance at the military and political affairs of the period, and an examination of the conflicting signs of the times will serve as a prelude to a short history of the regiment whose roster is here given. The opening of the year 1776, marked an historic era in the affairs of the new government in America, which was as yet in its formative stage. New York City, the same year, was one of the most important towns in the British possessions in North America. While rather more cosmopolitan than Boston, it was British in the main, and some time prior to the period of which we write no where else might a more cheerful loyalty have been both expected and found. But Great Britain had not been kind to the city named for the Duke of York. A colonial policy exasperating in its details, and constantly tending toward separation, had been pursued for years. The colonies had at last rebelled, and while war had not yet been declared from want of an organization as yet sufficiently a mouth-piece to announce its purposes of offense and defence, war was a fact. The shot, the firing of which had been heard round the world, was now a matter of history, the repulse of the troops of Britain at Bunker Hill, filled another page of the record, and the first day of January, now just past, had witnessed the unfurling of the tri-colored American banner, not yet spangled with stars, over the Continental army, which under the command of Washington was investing Boston. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.