The "Old Burial Ground", which adjoins the Whaler's Church on Meeting House Hill, was a site of battle in the raid
Date
May 24, 1777; a Saturday
Location
Sag Harbor, New York
Result
American victory
Belligerents
United States
Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Return Jonathan Meigs
James Raymond (POW)
Strength
Expedition: 234 Assault: 130[1]
Garrison: 70 men
1 armed schooner (personnel unknown)
12 small boats (about 40 men)[2]
Casualties and losses
None[2]
6 killed 90 captured[2] 12 small boats sunk
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Northern coastal theater
Ridgefield
Sag Harbor
2nd Machias
Setauket
Mount Hope Bay
Newport
Grey's raid
Chestnut Neck
Little Egg Harbor
Tryon's raid (Norwalk, Fairfield)
Penobscot Expedition
Cape Split
Fort St. George
Annapolis Royal
Cape Ann
Groton Heights
Fort Slongo
Lunenburg
The Meigs Raid (also known as the Battle of Sag Harbor) was a military raid by American Continental Army forces, under the command of Connecticut Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, on a British Loyalist foraging party at Sag Harbor, New York on May 24, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. Six Loyalists were killed and 90 captured while the Americans suffered no casualties. The raid was made in response to a successful British raid on Danbury, Connecticut in late April that was opposed by American forces in the Battle of Ridgefield.
Organized in New Haven, Connecticut by Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, the expedition crossed Long Island Sound from Guilford on May 23, dragged whaleboats across the North Fork of Long Island, and raided Sag Harbor early the next morning, destroying boats and supplies.
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