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Award-winning author of historical fiction with a dash of sci-fi. My blog, Yankee Doodle Spies, profiles the people, places & things of the Revolutionary War.
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12 Aug 1776, Gen George Washington writes Gen Charles Lee that the Continental Army's situation had deteriorated due to an outbreak of smallpox & desertions. Washington feared the British navy might blockade NYC, isolating it from other states.

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11 Aug 1777 British Gen Burgoyne dispatches a mixed brigade of Germans, Loyalists & Indians under Lt Col Friedrich Baum to seize needed supplies at Bennington VT.

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10 Aug 1778 Savannah, GA. The government of Georgia appeals to Gen Benjamin Lincoln for military forces to help defend the state from the British, who have seized territory.

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10 Aug 1777 Gen Phillip Schuyler dispatches an 800-strong force from Stillwater, NY to relieve the beleaguered garrison at Ft Stanwix. Some A-Teamers leading it: Gen Benedict Arnold and Ebenezer Learned.

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Yankee Doodle Spies: Loyal to a Fault? https://t.co/n3oJMyGeVq

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2021-08-10

9 Aug 1775 Gloucester, MA Royal Navy Capt John Linzee, commanding HMS Falcon, spotted two schooners returning to port. Falcon captures 1 schooner & chases a 2nd aground in the harbor. But militias rally & drive off the British longboat sent to seize it.

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8 Aug 1775 Cambridge, MA. Daniel Morgan & his Virginia riflemen arrive in hunting shirts & leggings, Morgan's men initially seemed strange to the militia & fights broke out. The riflemen soon gained a fierce reputation however as "Morgan's Sharpshooters.”

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6 Aug 1780 Gen Benedict Arnold wrote to Gen Washington of the conditions at West Point, a command he would soon seek to hand over to the British. He complained of the quality of the troops and their condition, fearing desertion.

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6 Aug 1777 Oriskany NY, A relief force of Patriot militia and Oneida allies marching on Ft Stanwix is ambushed by Loyalist & 6 Nations Iroquois Indian allies. Close to 1/2 of the patriots were killed, Gen Nicholas Herkimer is mortally wounded.

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5 Aug 1779 Morrisania, Bronx NY. Lt Col James DeLancey’s NY Loyalists & William Hull’s Conn. Brig engage in what was a NY civil war. The Patriots destroyed numerous buildings & food stores while also capturing several Loyalists and some horses & cattle.

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