2nd Rhode Island Regiment

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unit_name=2nd Rhode Island Regiment


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allegiance=Continental Congress of the United States
type= Infantry
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dates=1775-1776
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command_structure=Rhode Island Line
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battles=Battle of Bunker Hill Battles of Red Bank, Monmouth, Rhode Island, Springfield
notable_commanders= Colonel Daniel Hitchcock, Colonel Israel Angell
anniversaries=Campaign
name=Boston campaign, 1775–1776
battles=Bunker Hill – Dorchester Heights

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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 as the 11th Continental Regiment on 1 January 1776. The regiment would see action at Roxbury, Massachusetts during the Battle of Bunker Hill. The regiment was re-organized as the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment after the death of Colonel Daniel Hitchcock on January 13, 1777. The 2nd Rhode Island Regiment served to February 1781, having distinguished itself at the Battles of Monmouth, Rhode Island, and Springfield with several other skirmishes and minor engagements. In February 1781, the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment was combined with the remnants of the First Rhode Island Regiment to form the Rhode Island Regiment (1781 - 1783).

ee also

*11th Continental Regiment
*1st Rhode Island Regiment

References

*cite book | last=Wright | first=Richard K. | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | others= | title=The Continental Army | origdate= | origyear=1983 | origmonth= | url=http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/RevWar/ContArmy/CA-fm.htm | format=HTML | accessdate=June 26| accessyear=2006 | accessmonth= | edition= | date= | year= | month= | publisher=Center of Military History | location= | language= | id= | pages= | chapter=Lineage | chapterurl=

*"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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