Revolutionary Imprints
Norman Desmarais, Revolutionary War author and historian
Day in History
December 1,
1776
New Brunswick, New Jersey. Washington destroys part of a bridge over the Raritan and cannonades pursuers.
The crew of the Le Joy Planter rise upon the prize crew and retake the vessel.
Captain Squires's Elliot is retaken.
Massachusetts privateer schooner Warren captures the schooner Patroclus.
Privateer Civil Usage takes a brig.
A brig laden with lumber is taken.
1777
The HM Sloop-of-war Sphynx takes the privateer sloop Rover.
1778
The New York privateer Columbus (or Columbia) takes the Pennsylvania sloop St. Peter.
1779
Jockey Hollow (winter camp), New Jersey. beginning of winter encampment.
1780
The Perseus, the schooner Racehorse and the cutter Expedition capture the French privateer Count du Bois.
1781
Dorchester, South Carolina.
near Lyme, Connecticut, Ens. Andrew Griswold and 5 men raid a house containing 10 Loyalists and captured 9 of them.
Fort Dorchester, South Carolina.
Halstead's Point, Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Capt. Jonathan Dayton ambushes 7 Refugees from Staten Island, kills 1, mortally wounds another and takes 3 prisoners.
HMS Centurion captures a schooner.
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