Raid on the New York Battery

The cannon raid followed the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which was the first major military action between the Kingdom of Great Britain's British Army and Patriot militias of the Thirteen Colonies. The citizens of New York heard of the Battles of Lexington and Concord from a letter from Stephen Hopkins, which arrived in New York from Providence, Rhode Island on April 23, 1775. Stephen Hopkins wrote that the British army had …engaged in butchering and destroying our brethren in the most inhuman manner. On August 24, 1775, the British governor William Tryon arranged a meeting between the patriot local officials and Captain Vandeput, which calmed the patriots and eased fears of further attacks. Tryon was later removed from his position by the Provincial Congress. ==Aftermath==

The Raid on the New York Battery, in addition to the April 23, 1775 New York Armory Raid, and the June 6, 1775 Broad Street Raid both intensified tensions in the city and gave patriots needed supplies used later in the American Revolutionary War. On July 20, 1775, Patriots seized British supplies in Turtle Bay, New York in the Capture of Turtle Bay Depot. ==Location==

The New York Battery is located at the mouth of the Hudson River, at the south tip of Manhattan Island. Today, the Battery Park area has memorials to a number of Revolutionary War actions. == See also ==