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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 regi ment 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. 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.
