sentences:  At the beginning of Tryon's raid on Danbury, Connecticut, Silliman was at his home in Fairfield.As soon as he heard word of the British landing on the coast, he sent out expresses to alarm the nearby towns and to collect the militia.By noon the next day he arrived in Redding, Connecticut with five hundred men and was joined by Major General David Wooster and Brigadier General Benedict Arnold in the Battle of Ridgefield.