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Revolutionary Imprints. Norman Desmarais, Revolutionary War author and historian

Revolutionary Imprints

Norman Desmarais, Revolutionary War author and historian

  

This Week in History

March 20,

1776

Charleston, South Carolina.

Thompson's Island, Massachusetts. British send a watering party to Thompson’s Island which is fired on.

A British fleet takes two prize sloops from New Haven.

Newport, Rhode Island.

 

1777

English Neighborhood, New Jersey. Some Loyalists attack a post held by Col. Levi Pawling.

 

1779

Abercorn Creek, Georgia.

A New York privateer schooner captures a sloop.

South Carolina galleys Congress and Lee and a sloop engage the armed sloop Greenwich and a British galley.

British prisoners take two Whig vessels.

 

1780

Salkehatchie River, South Carolina.

 

1781

near Woodbridge, New Jersey.

A Spanish sloop and the armed launch from the Galveztown fire grape shot at any Crown troops near the harbor.

The Irish privateer Star and Garter takes a large French sloop.

 

1782

The Prince William captures a little Whig sloop.

 

1783

The packet Hancock & Hampton drives a Crown galley ashore.

The sloop Fiery Trial captures a galley.

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