On July 5, 1779, 2,600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, landed in New Haven Harbor and raided the 3,500-person town. A militia of Yale students had been prepping for battle, and former Yale president and Yale Divinity School professor Naphtali Daggett rode out to confront the Redcoats. Yale president Ezra Stiles recounted in his diary that while he moved furniture in anticipation of battle, he still couldn't quite believe the revolution had begun. New Haven was not torched as the invaders did with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, so many of the town's colonial features were preserved.
What is the name of the General who led the raid against New Haven on July 5, 1779? Who was the president of Yale at the time of the attack? Why did New Haven fair better than other invaded cities? What was the size  of the invading force? Who was the governor of New York under which the loyalist and British raid of New Haven took place? The students of what New Haven university formed an ad-hoc militia to confront the Redcoats? Who was the professor of Yale Divinity School that led the student militia to confront the Redcoats? On what date did the loyalists and Redcoats land in New Haven Harbor to commence a raid on New Haven? Who was the president of Yale that provided diary accounts expressing disbelief over the commencement of the revolution in New Haven? What is the name of the general that lead British regulars to New Haven Harbor? At the time what was the population of New Haven Harbor? A group of militia from a very famous modern town in Connecticut came to fought in the Harbor, what was the name of their town? The militia that fought in New Haven was lead by who?  After the battle were New Haven historical features lost or torched?