Northeast Cold Case

In November 1780, eighty men rowed out of a Connecticut cove before dawn, their oars wrapped in cloth to keep silent. Many of them had crossed Long Island Sound once before—not as soldiers, but as refugees fleeing British occupation. Now they were going back. This episode of Northeast Cold Case follows the Long Island refugees who rebuilt their lives in Connecticut and then turned the war around—serving as militia, privateers, whaleboat raiders, and spies.