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Yankee Doodle" is a traditional song and nursery rhyme, the early versions of which predate the Seven Years' War and American Revolutionary War. [1] It is often sung patriotically in the United States today. It is the state song of the U.S. state of Connecticut. [2] Its Roud Folk Song Index number is 4501.
The Connecticut March is a song originally from 1911, written by William Nassann. It was republished in 1913 [ 1 ] and published again by Paull-Pioneer Music in 1938. [ 2 ]
Chester" is a patriotic anthem composed by William Billings and sung during the American Revolutionary War. Billings wrote the first version of the song for his 1770 songbook The New England Psalm Singer, and made improvements for the version in his The Singing Master's Assistant (1778). It is the latter version that is best known today.
This category includes officers and soldiers who served as Patriots in the Connecticut militia or other state units during the American Revolutionary War. People from Connecticut who fought in units on the British side are categorized under Category:Loyalists in the American Revolution.
2. The Chicks, "Travelin' Soldier" The Chicks covered the Bruce Robison classic "Travelin' Soldier" and made it their own courtesy of their signature harmonies. The heartbreaking song tells of a ...
The Shaw Mansion was used as the Naval Headquarters for the state of Connecticut during the Revolutionary war. His son, Nathaniel Shaw Jr. was appointed by both the Continental Congress and the State of Connecticut as the naval agent during the American Revolutionary War , and he had the responsibility of drawing up orders for privateers as ...
The 2nd Connecticut was authorized in the Continental Army on 16 September 1776. It was organized between 1 January and April 1777 at Danbury, Connecticut of eight companies from the counties of Fairfield, Windham, and Hartford in the state of Connecticut and assigned on 3 April 1777 to the 1st Connecticut Brigade of the Highlands Department which protected the southern approaches to West ...
After the war, he applied for a pension or bounty-land warrant. [11] On April 15, 1806, the United States Congress passed an act to provide bounty-land warrants to soldiers of the Revolutionary War. In 1830, an heir of Titus, Jonathan K. Kent, received a warrant on his behalf.