Today we continue our journey at Fort Nathan Hale / Black Rock Fort in New Haven, a site where Connecticut’s story of service reaches all the way back to the Revolutionary War. This is where American militia stood guard over New Haven Harbor, and where Colonel William Ledyard’s men faced the British during the July 5, 1779 invasion, the same attack that also came ashore at Bradley Point in West Haven. The fort you see right at the water’s edge is Black Rock Fort, first built in 1776 as the front

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