Jerald P. Hurwitz is a native of the state of Connecticut, and the author of Alamo of the Revolution: Benedict Arnold and the Massacre at Fort Griswold. He has been a longstanding member of the Company of Military Historians, the American Battlefield Trust, and the 43rd Regiment of Foot/2nd Pennsylvania Regiment.
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In July of 1781, an American privateer sailing out of New London, Connecticut captured the British merchantman the Hanna, loaded with a bounty of luxury goods destined for British officers based in New York City. That action induced the British supreme le... SEE MORE