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I was reading some letters to and from John Adams and his wife. I noticed in several of them John Adams mentions the battle of Grape Island. Can anyone tell me anything about that?

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Grape never hosted any military fortifications though in 1775 it was a site of a skirmish over hay during the War of Independence, known as the Battle of Grape Island.

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It's a place near Boston. I think if you Google "battle of grape island" you should get plenty of info.

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yep thats where I got it from :wink:

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The island may have been cultivated prior to European colonization. Euro-Americans farmed and grazed the island for three hundred years, up until the 1940s. Since the abandonment of agricultural use in the 1940s, the natural succession of vegetation has created a wooded and shrubby landscape. Grape never hosted any military fortifications, though in 1775 it was a site of a skirmish over hay during the War of Independence known as the "Battle of Grape Island" or "Grape Island Alarm."

http://www.bostonislands.org/factsheet_template.asp?rsIslands__MMColParam=grap

First tea, then hay. No wonder all the descendents of the Bahstonians are the way that they are. Now in Florida, you never hear of a battle over grapefruit trees!

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