The 1774 Raid on Fort William & Mary

On December 14, 1774, John Langdon and a group New Hampshire Patriots stormed the lightly garrisoned Fort William & Mary to seize its stores of gunpowder and cannon. Sarah Vedrani tells us about the raid, about the historic events being planned in commemoration.  Now Fort Constitution on an active Coast Guard base in New Castle, (the only New Hampshire town which is entirely on islands), the Fort is still worth visiting!  She also tells us about the exciting happenings at Portsmouth's Strawbery Banke, a ten-acre historic neighborhood, and the living history at the Colonel Paul Wentworth House in Rollinsford. 

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