Raymond E. Sullivan, M.D. is a retired General and Oncologic Surgeon, with a life-long interest in New England and Revolutionary War history. He is a Docent and Regimental Surgeon with General John Glover's Marblehead Regiment of the Revolution (14th Continentals). Sullivan is a lecturer for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Waterbury, Connecticut's UConn Campus and is the author of several books on subjects of American History. He is a member of the Middlebury Historical Society, the W3R National Association and the Winthrop Society, with a family history tracing back to 1630, with the arrival of John Winthrop's Fleet in Salem, Massachusetts. Several members in his ancestry fought in the American War of Revolution, including his fourth Great Grandfather, David Alcock of Wolcott. He lives with his wife Joan on the hill just to the east of Breakneck in Middlebury, Connecticut. As we gaze across the valley to the hill upon which the French army encamped, to quote the aforementioned Dr. James Thacher, "a splendid world opens to our view, romantic and picturesque," and assuredly historic!