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In July of 1781, an American privateer sailing out of New London, Connecticut captured the British merchantman the Hanna, loaded with a bounty of luxury goods destined for British officers based in New York City. That action induced the British supreme leader of British forces in America to grant permission to the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold to lead an 1,800-man punitive amphibious expedition to destroy the American privateer base in New London. Being a native of the region, Arnold--a former American general--had intimate knowledge of the port and its defenses, including the most powerful fortification defending the harbor from Groton Heights Fort Griswold. So important was the fort that Arnold dedicated half of his expeditionary force to landing on the east side of the Thames River, for the sole purpose of capturing the fort and putting its heavy cannon out of commission. But Arnold miscalculated and misapprehended the strength of the fort and its defenders. That misperception would have grievous consequences for the fort's British attackers and their outnumbered American defenders.

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Paul Brion has a passion for storytelling. He believes that audiobooks--our most current form of the oral tradition--are the purest of the interactive and co-creative arts. An autodidact with eclectic interests, he enjoys learning about a wide variety of subjects, as he has an avaricious hunger for knowledge. Jerald P. Hurwitz is a native of the state of Connecticut, where as a young child he first learned about the bloody assault on Fort Griswold from a tricentennial illustrated history of the state published in 1935. This led to a lifelong passion for learning about the American Revolution. Hurwitz is a graduate of Lehigh University and the University of Connecticut Law School and has been a practicing attorney for forty-five years. He has served as president of the Princeton Battlefield Society for twenty years, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to preserving and restoring the Princeton Battlefield. As president, he engaged in a thirteen-year struggle to save a core area of the battlefield from a housing development. He has lectured about and given tours of the Princeton Battlefield. He has also written magazine articles on the Battle of Princeton and on the massacre of Fort Griswold. Hurwitz has been a longstanding member of the Company of Military Historians, the American Battlefield Trust, and the 43rd Regiment of Foot/2nd Pennsylvania Regiment. He currently resides and works near Tampa, Florida.

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