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Encyclopedia > Richard Gridley

Richard Gridley was an American soldier during the revolution. When the Continental Congress first created a Continental Army in 1775 he was named to head the engineers (artillery) since he had been engineer-in-chief at the reduction of Fortress Louisbourg thirty years before.


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Richard Gridley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (274 words)
Richard Gridley (January 3, 1710 – June 21, 1796) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Gridley was a military engineer during the French and Indian Wars from the reduction of Fortress Louisbourg in 1745 to the fall of Quebec.
For his services he was awarded a commission in the British Army, a grant of the Magdalen Islands, 3,000 acres (12 km²) of land in New Hampshire, and a life annuity.
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