William Tryon
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Lieutenant-General William Tryon was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as governor of North Carolina from 1764 to 1771 and the governor of New York from 1771 to 1777. He als
Alleged portrait, 1767
Margaret Tryon
Tryon's tomb at St Mary's Church, Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Battle of Ridgefield
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The Battle of Ridgefield was a series of American Revolutionary War skirmishes in Danbury, Connecticut and Ridgefield, Connecticut, including Tryon's Raid on Danbury and the Battle of Compo Hill.
William Tryon
…with British troops for the night. Tryon engaged and defeated Patriot forces under the command of General David Wooster and Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Ridgefield when attempting to return to an invasion fleet anchored in Westport. In May 1778, he was given the rank of major-general in the British army, but in…
A 1776 depiction of David Wooster