2nd New Hampshire Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=2nd New Hampshire Regiment


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allegiance=Continental Congress of the United States
type= Infantry
branch=
dates=1775-1783
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command_structure=New Hampshire Line
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current_commander=
garrison=
ceremonial_chief=
nickname=
motto=The Glory, Not the Prey
colors=
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battles=Battle of Trois-Rivières,
Battle of Trenton,
Battle of Princeton,
Battle of Hubbardton,
Battle of Saratoga,
Battle of Monmouth,
the Sullivan Expedition,
Battle of Yorktown
notable_commanders=Colonel Enoch Poor,
Colonel Nathan Hale
George Reid
anniversaries=Campaign
name=Canadian theater, 1775–1776
battles=Ticonderoga – Crown Point – Longue-Pointe – Fort St. Jean – Quebec – Les Cèdres – Vaudreuil – Trois-Rivières – Valcour Bay – Fort CumberlandCampaign
name=New York and New Jersey, 1776–1777
battles=Long Island – Kip's Bay – Harlem Heights – Pell's Point – White Plains – Fort Washington – 1st Trenton – 2nd Trenton – Princeton – Forage War – Bound BrookCampaign
name=Saratoga campaign, 1777
battles=Ticonderoga – Hubbardton – Fort Ann – Oriskany – Bennington – 1st Saratoga (Freeman's Farm) – 2nd Saratoga (Bemis Heights)Campaign
name=Northern theater after Saratoga, 1778–1781
battles=Rhode Island – Wyoming Valley – Carleton's Raid – Cherry Valley – Stony Point – Penobscot expedition – Sullivan expedition – Newtown – Springfield – Groton HeightsCampaign
name=Southern theater Participation, 1781
battles=YorktownThe 2nd New Hampshire Regiment, also known as the 8th Continental Regiment, was formed in early May of 1775, as the second of three Continental Army regiments raised by the state of New Hampshire during the American Revolutionary War. Its first commander was Colonel Enoch Poor, with Joseph Cilley as major. The 2nd NH would see action at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton, Battle of Hubbardton, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Monmouth, the Sullivan Expedition and the Battle of Yorktown. At Hubbardton Col. Nathan Hale and part of the regiment were captured by the British Army. During the summer of 1783, the 2nd NH and the 3rd NH were merged into the 1st New Hampshire Regiment and were disbanded on January 1 1784.

The 2nd New Hampshire's Regimental colours that were captured at Hubbardton and returned to the state of New Hampshire are now housed at the New Hampshire State House in Concord, New Hampshire. It is one of only a few American battle flags from the American Revolution known to still exist.

This idea is under some dispute. The colors containing the motto "The Glory Not the Prey." likely served the New Hampshire Brigade. The other colors captured at the time, the linked 13 rings, were likely divisional colors.

References

*"Death Seem'd to Stare": The New Hampshire And Rhode Island Regiments at Valley Forge" by Joseph Lee Boyle, Clearfield Co, 1995 ISBN 0806352671
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=XSDnxlK1sMUC&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire. State Builers Publishing Manchester, NH 1903]

External links

* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/newhampshire/revolutionary/page2.htm Roster of 2nd New Hampshire Officers]
* [http://www.worldpath.net/~starck/ - Reenactor website]
*http://2NHLI.org
* [http://www.archive.org/details/adjutantcol00orderich Orderly book kept by Jeremiah Fogg. Adjutant Colonel Enoch Poors Second New Hampshire regiment on Winter Hill, during the siege of Boston, October 28, 1775, to January 12, 1776]