Lee's
Additional Continental Regiment was raised on January 12, 1777, with troops from
Massachusetts
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
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for service with the
Continental Army. The regiment was commanded by Colonel William R. Lee,
[Heitman, pp. 25, 346] and 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. Its lineage is perpetuated by the
101st Engineer Battalion.
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External links
Bibliography of the Continental Army in Massachusettscompiled by the
United States Army Center of Military History
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