Revolutionary Imprints
Norman Desmarais, Revolutionary War author and historian
Day in History
September 15,
1775
Tybee Island, Georgia.
1776
Kip's Bay, New York.
Paulus Hook, New Jersey. British rake Sandy Hook with grape shot and kill one horse.
The Continental sloop Providence takes a brig.
A small Baltimore privateer takes a brig from Jamaica.
1777
Bemis Heights, New York.
Piscataway, New Jersey. Americans Loyalists during a raid.
Potterstown, New Jersey. Americans capture party of Loyalists .
Watsessing, New Jersey. Skirmish occurs during British raids coinciding with the Battle of Brandywine.
Elizabethtown, New Jersey. British kill Capt. Francis Lock during a skirmish.
A British frigate and a 14-gun schooner chase a small privateer sloop.
1778
British ships pillage Martha’s Vineyard.
1779
The Spanish governor of Honduras takes the British settlement at St. George’s key.
Captain Samuel Tucker and Captain Samuel Nicholson capture the HM Sloop-of-War Thorn.
The crew of one of the colliers captured by Captain John Paul Jones retakes her.
The New York privateer Black Prince takes a sloop.
The sloop Lady Dunmore and the brig Spitfire capture the sloop Anna, the brig Spitfire and two schooners.
1782
Big Sandy River, West Virginia.
The HMS Amphion takes the Whig brig Commodore Gálvez.
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