Revolutionary War Defenses: Jamestown, RI

87 Narragansett Avenue,Jamestown RI 02835

03 May, 2023

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The Jamestown Historical Society has partnered with the Battle of Rhode Island Association (https://battleofrhodeisland.org) to sponsor a presentation by military historian John Robertson. On Wednesday, May 3rd at 2:00 pm, Dr. Robertson will be speaking in Jamestown at St. Matthews’ Parish Hall, 87 Narragansett Ave. The lecture is based on his new book “Revolutionary War Defenses in Rhode Island.” The book was a 10-year research effort and contains almost 300 maps and plans showing defensive fortifications along most of the coast of Narragansett Bay and southern Rhode Island. Maps include fortifications on Conanicut and nearby Aquidneck Island, which were occupied during the Revolutionary War at various times by the Americans, British, and French. John K. Robertson, Ph.D., is a Colonel (Ret.), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with 23 years of service and served on the faculty at West Point. He is co-owner/editor of the RevWar75.com website. He is a Fellow and Chair for the Endowment Fund Committee of the Company of Military Historians. His research interests include military justice, the militia in the American War for Independence, and Rhode Island in the war. The Jamestown Historical Society was founded in 1912 to preserve the Jamestown windmill. Since then, we’ve added other preservation efforts – the 1786 Conanicut Friends Meetinghouse, the Windmill, the 1776 Conanicut Battery, an 1875 primary school that serves as our museum, and a constantly growing collection of more than 40,000 photographs, archives, and artifacts that tell the history of Conanicut (Jamestown), Dutch, and Gould Islands.