Episode 139 Meigs Raid on Sag Harbor

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A patriot force under the command of Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs raids British occupied Long Island from Connecticut. The Americans capture loyalist prisoners and destroy British supplies before returning back to Connecticut. The patriots considered the raid a great success. The British gave up attempting to maintain a permanent outpost on the eastern part of Long Island. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: The Quiet Patriot, Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs: With Meigs's 1775 Journal of the Quebec Expedition, by Richard A. Mason, 2010. Online Recommendation of the Week: The Life and Letters of Samuel Holden Parsons, by Charles Hall: https://archive.org/details/lifeandletterss00hallgoog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.6	Go. UK. Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution. Today, episode 139, the Meigs Raid on Sag Harbor, Long Island.
0:56.5	Today we return to British Occupied Long Island.
1:00.5	The British, you will recall, Occupied Long Island along with New York City in late 1776,
1:07.0	when General Howe and Admiral Howe led an invasion force.
1:11.9	The British put most of their forces in New York City itself and spent most of 1777 focused on New Jersey and the expansion of more colonial territory brought back under the authority of the crown.
1:27.0	Before there were any bridges between Manhattan Island and Long Island, the two communities were not as tied together.
1:35.4	There were great many who lived in Western Long Island who regularly interacted with New York
1:40.6	City via a ferry. Most of Long Island, at least the part that had been settled,
1:46.3	was used for farming and grazing. I have not seen an authoritative census from the time, but I'd guess the population of the entire island
1:56.2	was between 15,000 and 20,000, compared to around 3 million today. Many Patriot residents of Long Island had fled to
2:05.2	Connecticut after the British occupation. Those who remained did not
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