1. This expedition, which was commanded by Gov. William Tryon, embarked at New York on 21 April and raided Danbury, Conn., on 26–27 April, destroying a large quantity of American provisions, clothing, and tents stored there (see Alexander McDougall to GW, 27, 29 April). Tryon’s force consisted of about two thousand men drawn from the 4th, 15th, 23d, 27th, 44th, and 64th regiments of foot, the 17th Regiment of dragoons, Gov. Montfort Browne’s Loyalist regiment (the Prince of Wales American Regiment), and the Royal Artillery (see Lydenberg, Robertson’s Diaries description begins Harry Miller Lydenberg, ed. Archibald Robertson, Lieutenant-General Royal Engineers: His Diaries and Sketches in America, 1762–1780. New York, 1930. description ends , 126, and Kemble Papers description begins [Stephen Kemble]. The Kemble Papers. 2 vols. New York, 1884-85. In Collections of the New-York Historical Society, vols. 16–17. description ends , 1:113–14). “Some Provincials and three Frigates,” Stephen Kemble says in his journal, “went up the North [Hudson] River at the same time this [Tryon’s] Detachment Sailed, supposed to make a Diversion that way” (ibid., 114; see also Lord Howe to Philip Stephens, 23 April, Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 8:407–9).