biography
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| (1738–81)
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| biography:
| American soldier, born in Groton, Connecticut, USA. An active patriot in the years before the American Revolution, he became a captain in the Connecticut militia (1776). In September 1781 he surrendered Fort Griswold, CT after a spirited defence, and was killed, along with 85 other survivors of the battle, by British troops run amok. |
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