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REVOLUTIONARY WAR MUSKET BALL"BATTLE OF FORT SLONGO" NY

Price: $50.00

THIS IS A(PRESUMED BRITISH) 18mm,APPROXIMATLEY 3/4 INCH MUSKET BALL FROM THE BATTLE OF FORT SLONGO (THE ONE PICTURED) FROM AN AREA IN FORT SOLONGA, RIGHT NEAR WEAR THE BRITISH FORT SOLONGO WOULD HAVE BEEN BEFORE THE PATRIOTS ORGANIZED THIER VICTORIUS ATTACK ON "FORT SLONGO" NOW NOWN AS FORT SOLONGA. THIS IS AN AREA THAT WAS CLOSE TO HOME FOR ME AND HAD AN OPPERTUNITY TO DETECT AN AREA NOW LOST FOR EVER AS IT IS NOW A PARKING LOT, BUT FOUND MANY INTERESTING ARTIFACTS AND NICE BUTTONS AS WELL AS MUSKET BALLS MOST OF WHICH HAVE BEEN SOLD OFF AND OR DONATED OVER THE YEARS, THE FEW I HAVE LEFT ARE NOW BEING SOLD OFF. DUE TO ECONOMIC RESTRAINTS IVE BEEN SELLING OFF MY PRIVATE COLLECTION SO THIS COULD BE YOUR OPPERTUNITY TO OWN A PIECE OF AMERICAN HISTORY!

The “PURPLE HEART” and AMERICA'S FIRST

WAR HEROES

O ne of the most well-known and readily recognizable

American Military awards is the Purple Heart. Although

it is not the oldest continuous military award,

which distinction belongs to the Medal of Honor, it is

most certainly the first such award and the oldest.

General George Washington established the “Badge of

Military Merit”, as it was originally called, on August 7,

1782 to honor deserving soldiers for their heroic actions

against the enemy during the Revolution. In his own

words, General Washington directed that the award be

of, “the figure of a heart in purple cloth, or silk, edged

with a narrow lace or binding”.

The first Purple Heart was awarded to Sgt. Elijah Churchill

of the 2nd Regiment of Continental Light Dragoons.

Sgt. Churchill participated in two successful

lightning raids against the British which earned him his

well-deserved award. While leading a small Troop of

sixteen Dragoons in November, 1780, Sgt. Churchill and

his men attacked the British fort at Corum, New York.

During the furious battle, they burned three-hundred

tons of hay, captured fifty prisoners and burned and sank

a small Royal Navy supply schooner. Only one American

soldier was slightly wounded in the fight. The second

raid in which Sgt. Churchill participated occurred in

October, 1781, when the 2nd Light Dragoons attacked

Fort Slongo. Within twenty-four hours the fort was captured

and burned, and miraculously, not one American

soldier was lost.

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