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In many ways, southeastern Connecticut’s Revolutionary War hero Colonel William Ledyard remains a shadowy icon, even 240 years after the British ran

In many ways, southeastern Connecticut’s Revolutionary War hero Colonel William Ledyard remains a shadowy icon, even 240 years after the British ran

When I was a young boy during the bicentennial of the American Revolution, I was mesmerized when my parents took me to see the site of the Battle of Groton Heights.

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