2nd Rhode Island Regiment

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2nd Rhode Island Regiment
Active	1775-1776
Allegiance	Continental Congress of the United States
Type	Infantry
Part of	Rhode Island Line
Battles/wars	Battle of Bunker Hill
Commanders
Notable commanders	Colonel Hitchcock

Boston campaign, 1775–1776
Bunker Hill – Dorchester Heights

Contents 1 Summary 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Summary

The 2nd Rhode Island Regiment also known as Hitchcock's Regiment was authorized on May 6, 1775 under Colonel Hitchcock in the Rhode Island Army of Observation and was organized on 8 May 1775 as eight companies of volunteers from Providence county of the colony of Rhode Island. The regiment was adopted into the Continental Army on 14 June 1775. The regiment was re-organized to ten companies on 28 June 1775 and assigned to Greene's Brigade on 22 July 1775. The regiment was re-organized and combined with the 1st Rhode Island Regiment to eight companies and redesignated as the 9th Continental Regiment on 1 January 1776. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

[edit] See also

• 9th Continental Regiment
• 1st Rhode Island Regiment

[edit] References

• Wright, Richard K. [1983]. "Lineage", The Continental Army (HTML), Center of Military History. Retrieved on June 26, 2007. 

• "Death Seem'd to Stare": The New Hampshire And Rhode Island Regiments at Valley Forge by Joseph Lee Boyle, Clearfield Co, 1995 ISBN 0806352671

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