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Summer – Sailed with Gen Wm Tryon (former Provincial Governor of the North Carolina Colony 1765-1771) in attacks against CT coast under General Garth (included flank companies of the guards; 54th regiment, a detachment of Yagers, and 2 pieces of artillery)

    "Return of the Killed, Wounded and Missing of the Troops under the Command of His Excellency Major General Tryon on an Expedition in the Sound from the 3rd July to the 14th July 1779.
             ...
    New Haven, 5th July 1779.
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    7th or Royal Fuzileers- 1 Serjeant Wounded; 7 Rank & File Wounded, 2 Missing

    Fairfield, 8th July 1779
    7th or Royal Fuzileers- 2 Serjeants Wounded; 1 Rank & File Killed, 13 Wounded, 1 Missing. One since dead of his wounds.”
    (Source: University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, Sir Henry Clinton Papers, Volume 63, item 10. Found on RevList, Message #51343)

    “Return of Ordnance and Stores, taken and destroyed at and near Newhaven, &c. on July 6th, 1779, by a detachment of the army under the command of his Excellency Maj.-Gen. Tryon. …
    IRON ORDNANCE
    Taken and destroyed by the Royal Fuzileers, in the action at Norwalk, 1 three pounder.”
    (Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain 1727 – 1783, vol. VI, pg 176, Note 134)

    “At East Haven the British burned several houses; but they burned nothing in New Haven, excepting some stores on the Long Wharf. There were burnt at Fairfield 86 dwelling houses, 2 churches, a handsome court house, several school houses, 55 barns, 15 stores and 15 shops…”
    (The Annals of America From the Discovery By Columbus in the Year 1492 to the Year 1826, Volume 2, pg 299)

 September 26th – Set sail with Cornwallis from New York bound for Georgia coast, but were immediately ordered back.

    Sunday, Sept. 26th. Accounts that Monsr. D'Estaing, with 24 Sail of the Line, 14 Frigates, and some Transports, were seen off the Coast of St. Augustine and Georgia; some say to the Westward of Bermuda. Lord Cornwallis's Troops, consisting of 7th., 23d. and 57th. Regiments, Volunteers of Ireland, and Queen's Rangers, Embarked and Sailed out of the Hook; ordered back, on the night of 26th, by the Admiral. The Russell, Europe, Defiance, and Raisonable, remain at the Hook.
    (Kemble Papers, pg 186)

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