Lee's Additional Continental Regiment

Lee's Additional Continental Regiment

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Lee's Additional Continental Regiment was raised on January 12, 1777 with troops from Massachusetts at Cambridge, Massachusetts for service with the Continental Army. The regiment saw action at the Battle of Monmouth and the Battle of Rhode Island. The Regiment was merged into the 16th Massachusetts Regiment on April 9, 1779. Lineage carried on by the 101st Engineer Battalion (United States).

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