Dr. Robert A. Selig to Speak in Portsmouth

The Battle of Rhode Island Association Lecture Series sponsored by the Rhode Island Senate Legislature and the General Society of Colonial Wars continue as we partner with the Portsmouth Historical Society and the Varnum House Museum to bring a series of lectures from historian Dr. Robert A. Selig in Portsmouth and East Greenwich.

On Saturday, April 20th, at 1 PM at St. John’s Lodge No. 1, 81 Sprague St. in Portsmouth. Dr. Selig will present “Rochambeau’s Engineers at Butts Hill Fort, July 1780-June 1781” a translation of the Comte De Rochambeau’s Orderly Reports pertaining to Butts Hill Fort. This research was funded by the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. After the lecture, a brief tour of nearby Butts Hill Fort will be available.