Lee's Additional Continental Regiment

Lee's Additional Continental Regiment
Active 1777-1779
Allegiance Continental Congress of the United States
Type Infantry
Part of Massachusetts Line
Engagements Monmouth and Rhode Island

Lee's Additional Continental Regiment was raised on January 12, 1777 with troops from Massachusetts at Cambridge, Massachusetts for service with the Continental Army. The regiment saw action at the Battle of Monmouth and the Battle of Rhode Island. The Regiment was merged into the 16th Massachusetts Regiment on April 9, 1779. Lineage carried on by the 101st Engineer Battalion (United States).

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