British General Tryon’s raid on Danbury occurred on April 26, 1777, beginning the 1777 campaign as the first British invasion and the only pitched battle in Connecticut. After burning Danbury, British troops marched through Ridgefield the next day on their way back to ships moored at Compo Beach in Westport. The first skirmish, led by American General David Wooster, occurred at the intersection of Barlow Mountain Road and North Salem Road. The second occurred at the intersection of Tackora Trail South, where Wooster was mortally wounded, and his men then joined those of General Benedict Arnold. Arnold, then still a great American hero, led the patriots against the British at a barricade erected in front of Benjamin Stebbins’ house and narrowly escaped death when his horse was shot out from under him. The British continued marching through the town, firing along the way at known patriot buildings. Casagmo later replaced the Stebbins house after it was torn down in the 1890s; George M. Olcott built the yellow brick Georgian mansion, naming it from the Italian word for house plus his initials, and it was razed in 1968 to make way for the present apartment and condominium complex.