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Jan 23, 2021 · John Mansfield was a BBC veteran and a NOVA executive producer from 1980 to 1984. He won multiple awards for NOVA films on topics such as volcanoes, in vitro fertilization, and time.
John Mansfield is an actor who appeared in TV shows such as Days of Our Lives, Who's the Boss and Santa Barbara. He also worked in movies such as Space Marines, Tornado! and The Story Lady.
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- Early Life
- Enlisted in Continental Army and Canadian Invasion
- Reduction of St. Jean (St. John), Canada
- Reenlisted and Battles Around New York City
- Battle of Long Island
- Battle of Kip’s Bay
- Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776
- Battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776
- Main Army Heads to New Jersey, Mansfield’s Regiments Remains in Hudson Valley
- Sag Harbor Raid, May 24, 1777
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Little is documented as to John Mansfield’s life. He left behind no memoir. Most of what we know can be traced through his service in the American Revolutionary War. We know he born and raised in Wallingford, Connecticut as all Revolutionary War certificates that list his name also give that town as his residence. He is also buried at the Park Stre...
What little we do know of Lt. John Mansfield’s role in the American Revolution has been sourced from the 1900 text, “Yearbook of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution for 1897-1899”, pg. 537 & 538, which details his years as a Continental Soldier and militiaman. There is no record of his being active in the local militia pr...
The British had occupied a former French fort at St. John’s, situated on the Richelieu River, to guard against any advance towards Montreal. It had been lightly garrisoned when Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys raided the fort on May 18, 1775, sinking the HMS Savage, a six gun sloop, fifty footer with a crew of approximately fifty. This actio...
Mansfield returned home to Wallingford, Connecticut in November 1775 and for the next six months resumed farming. Meanwhile, the American Army was getting a new face. Toward the end of 1775, due to disbanded short term enlistments, extended furloughs, and illness, Washington’s army was in trouble. Beginning January 1, 1776, the Commander-in-Chief e...
Douglass’ Battalion, in which Ensign John Mansfield was in the 6th Company commanded by Captain Jacob Brackett, was ordered to Long Island on August 27th, the day of the Battle of Long Island. Some days earlier, elements of Major General Spencer’s Division had been sent to counter the British landing on Long Island. According to Henry Johnston’s 18...
On September 15th, Mansfield’s regiment was posted along the East River north of the city. They had been sent to Turtle Bay to secure about 2,500 barrels of flour from storehouses along the river. British ships plied the waters and the regiment remained, lying behind lines, “although they were nothing more than a ditch dug along on the bank of the ...
British General William Howe had landed approximately 10,000 troops at Kip’s Bay and cut across the island south of Washington’s lines at Harlem Heights to the north. Early the next morning, a probe by the American ranger force under Colonel Thomas Knowlton quickly grew into a heated skirmish with the British chased the rebels as they drew back to ...
Nearly three weeks after the Battle of Harlem Heights proved the Americans determination to hold the line against the British push north, British Commander-in-Chief, General William Howe, decided to try and flank Washington. On October 12th, he transported his troops through Hells Gate on the East River and landed them in the American rear at Frog’...
Once Howe returned to New York, Washington left a portion of his army under the command of Major General Charles Lee and headed south to New Jersey to block any movement Howe could make towards Philadelphia. Mansfield and Douglass’ regiment were to remain with Lee’s Division. They did so until the state militiamen’s six month term ended in early De...
Major General William Tryon staged a raid against the Danbury, Connecticut depot of military supplies in April of 1777. His three day excursion into Connecticut created quite the stir as the former royal governor was successful in destroying American supplies and torching a large portion of Danbury, as well as residences in route from and to the so...
Learn about the life and achievements of Lt. John Mansfield, a Connecticut farmer who fought in the American Revolution from 1775 to 1781. He led the forlorn hope at Yorktown, was wounded, and survived the war.
Oct 23, 2009 · Abraham Lincoln presenter John Mansfield gives impromptu talk at the monument in Gettysburg, Pennylvania, and recites the Gettysburg Address. John Mansfield ...
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May 28, 2024 · John Masefield (born June 1, 1878, Ledbury, Herefordshire, Eng.—died May 12, 1967, near Abingdon, Berkshire) was a poet, best known for his poems of the sea, Salt-Water Ballads (1902, including “Sea Fever” and “Cargoes”), and for his long narrative poems, such as The Everlasting Mercy (1911), which shocked literary orthodoxy with its ...
A classic poem by John Masefield, a British poet and novelist, expressing his longing for the sea and the adventure of sailing. Read the full text, analysis and context of this famous sea-faring verse.
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