Aug. 19—GROTON — Every year, the Friends of Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park hold a ceremony on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Groton ...

On September 6, 1781, in one of the Revolutionary War’s most brutal episodes, America’s infamous traitor Benedict Arnold led 800 British troops in an assault on Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut.

Fort Trumbull and Fort Griswold still exist ... a major event that included a "sham battle" recreating the fight on both sides of the river. On Sept. 6, 1881, Civil War veterans as the Americans ...

Grant on April 9 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. A few months prior to that surrender — Feb. 20, 1865 — was the Battle of Fort Myers. Cathy Chestnut wrote about that battle in the Feb. 21 ...