Stark Fortifies the Beach
June 22 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
View Stark’s men set defenses that will change the tides of the battle.
As the day wore on, the ebbing tide gave the British an advantage by exposing more beachhead at the end of the American line of defense. Cols. John Stark and James Reed of New Hampshire saw this vulnerable gap and constructed a crude barricade to save the Americans from being outflanked.