Revolutionary Imprints
Norman Desmarais, Revolutionary War author and historian
April 1,
1776
Egg Harbor, New Jersey. HMS Endeavour chases some vessels from Sandy Point, MD to Egg Harbor.
Crew of a British tender plunder scuttle and set fire to the Endeavour.
1777
Lonsdale vs. Royal American
Freedom captures Penelope
HM Sloop Beaver captures sloop Polly
British privateer schooner Surprize captures schooner Mars
HM Frigate Mermaid captures Clarissa
1778
Woodbury, New Jersey.
The HMS Seaford captures the Whig privateer Hammond.
1779
The South Carolina vessel Hornet and Captain Turner's Eagle capture the sloop Prince of Wales (formerly the Lord Howe) and capture the brig Royal Charlotte.
The HM Sloop Delight captures the French privateer Jean Burt.
1780
A Guernsey privateer captures a French vessel.
The Pennsylvania privateer brigs Argo and Fair American capture a British sloop, the British privateer brig Elphinstone and the British privateer brig Arbuthnot.
1781
Pensacola, Florida.
Bear Bluff, South Carolina.
1782
Bryant's Mill, South Carolina.
A Massachusetts fishing boat takes the ship Harriot.
The Loyalist privateer brig Perseverance takes the Connecticut privateer schooner Raven.
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The French Newspaper in Newport Online Journal of Rhode Island History. December 3, 2021.
Why Newport Scorned the French in 1780. Online Journal of Rhode Island History. January 1, 2021.
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