Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Rhode Island, at Portsmouth, R. I., August 29, 1878: Comprising the Oration by Ex-United States Senator Samuel G. Arnold; A Letter of Sir Henry Pigot, the English Commander; A German Account of the Battle; The Views of General Lafayette
The second of December, 177 6, was a dark day for Rhode Island. It was the prelude to a mili tary occupation by an overwhelming hostile force which for nearly three years was to hold the Island, the strategic key to Southern New England, and to spread terror and destruction over a wide extent of country. This occupation of the island was not to cease till a desperate battle had bathed in blood its fairest fields, and the best fought action of the war had proved to a long defiant fee that the entrench ments of Newport were no longer secure. On that day a squadron of eleven ships of war, - seven line of battle ships and four frigates - under Sir Peter Parker, appeared off Block Island; and the next day sailed up the Sound to convey a ?eet of seventy10 historical tract.
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