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12th
Continental Regiment
LINEAGE
- Authorized on
April 23, 1775 in the Massachusetts State Troops as Little's Regiment.
- Organized in spring
1775 at Cambridge to consist of 10 companies from northeastern Middlesex
and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts; and Hillsborough County, New
Hampshire.
- Adopted on June
14, 1775 into the Continental Army and assigned to the Main Continental Army.
- Assigned on July
22, 1775 to Greene's Brigade, an element of the Main Continental Army.
- Reorganized and
redesignated 1 January 1776 as the 12th Continental Regiment, an element
of Greene's Brigade to consist of 8 companies.
- Relieved on August
12, 1776 from Greene's Brigade and assigned to Nixon's Brigade, an element
of the Main Continental Army.
- Disbanded during
February 1777 at Morristown, New Jersey and Peekskill, New York
ENGAGEMENTS
- Siege of Boston
- New York City
- Trenton - Princeton
- Northern New Jersey
HISTORY
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