When Redcoats Marched in Marblehead: Leslie’s Retreat

Marblehead Museum 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, MA, United States

Historian J.L. Bell will tell the thrilling story of Leslie's Retreat, the first armed resistance to the British crown, and its connections to Marblehead. On Sunday, February 26, 1775, about 250 British soldiers marched through Marblehead, sent by the royal governor to search for weapons. When that column of redcoats stalled at a drawbridge in […]

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