Christian McBurney To Speak on the Bristol Raids
May 14 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Author and historian Christian McBurney will speak about the British raids on Bristol, R.I., on Wednesday, May 14, at 6 p.m. The Battle of Rhode Island Association and the Bristol Historic and Preservation Society will present McBurney at the Rogers Free Library in Bristol.
On May 25, 1778, a large British army detachment of soldiers from Newport landed on Bristol Neck. They then spent the day burning parts of Bristol, Warren and boats at the Kickemuit River. The British also seized some 60 civilians as prisoners.
McBurney will focus on Bristol, where 20 percent of its houses were torched. The talk will also compare the British army’s march from Warren to Bristol, and from Bristol to Bristol Ferry, to the British army’s march at the Battle of Lexington and Concord where patriot militia inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy during its march.
Come hear Rhode Island and Revolutionary War historian Christian McBurney tell this fascinating story.
Christian McBurney
Christian McBurney has authored numerous books on the history of Rhode Island including “Spies in Revolutionary Rhode Island (History Press, 2014),” and “Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott (Westholme, 2014).” He also wrote “The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation of the Revolutionary War (Westholme, 2011).”
Christian also founded and publishes of a leading Rhode Island history blog at smallstatebighistory.com.
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please click HERE to register.