by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2019 | 1776, American Revolutionary War 1776-1783
?In the bitterly frozen early weeks of March 1776 the two-decked Roebuck 44, Captain Andrew Snape Hamond, detached her small tender Lord Howe to cruise off Lewes at the mouth of Delaware Bay adjacent to Cape Henlopen, and within a matter of days this vessel discovered...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 30, 2015 | 1776, American Revolutionary War 1776-1783
During 1775 the American colonies had began turning from civil disobedience to armed rebellion in order to achieve their desire for free right of settlement, abolition of punitive taxes and the removal of restrictions on trade. In Britain political attitudes to...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 30, 2015 | 1776, American Revolutionary War 1776-1783
?Whilst the British and many members of the rebel?Congress prevaricated over taking up arms to resolve their dispute, two American adventurers, Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen, decided to attack the British army outposts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point at the northern...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 28, 2015 | 1776, American Revolutionary War 1776-1783
The Battle for Charleston – 28 June 1776 On 3 May 1776 Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton assumed command of a British army of four thousand men, part of which had recently arrived off Cape Fear, North Carolina, after a torturous two-month voyage under...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 29, 2015 | 1776, American Revolutionary War 1776-1783
The New York Campaign – July to October 1776 On 12 June a fleet of men-of-war and one hundred and twenty transports carrying General Sir William Howe’s army left Halifax in Nova Scotia and sailed south. Vice-Admiral Molyneux Shuldham, who having...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 30, 2015 | 1776, American Revolutionary War 1776-1783
With their marine forces being unable to make any significant impact upon the superiority of the British Navy the Americans soon began considering more ingenious forms of warfare, and one such attempt was a submersible attack that was perpetrated on...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 30, 2015 | 1776, American Revolutionary War 1776-1783
The Battle of Lake Champlain – 11-12 October 1776 After the British relief of Quebec in May, the American forces under the command of Benedict Arnold retired down towards Lake Champlain with the British Army under Major-General Sir Guy Carleton in hot...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 30, 2015 | 1776, American Revolutionary War 1776-1783
The Occupation of Rhode Island – 8 December 1776 The last act of the British campaign in North America during 1776 was the occupation of Rhode Island and Narragansett Bay by a squadron under the command of Commodore Sir Peter Parker consisting of five...
