# history amrev armylife

14 Nov 1775 Col Benedict Arnold’s forces arrive on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec. Arnold demands garrison to surrender. Lt Col Allen Maclean refused. Short on supplies & lacking artillery, Arnold goes to Pointe-aux-Trembles to await reinforcements.

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2021-11-14

Doing a big mythbust today, hoping to deal death to the misconception that British infantry weren’t trained to aim their muskets and that muskets in general were horrifically inaccurate 1/18

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2021-11-03

24 Oct 1781 British fleet of 25 SOL & several frigates under Adm Graves, with a relief force of 7K Regulars, enter Chesapeake Bay. But with news of Cornwallis’s surrender & presence of French fleet blockading the approaches he turns back to NY on the 29th.

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2021-10-25

16 Oct 1780 When Loyalists & Iroquois under Sir John Johnson & Chief Joseph Brant are unable to dislodge the Middle Fort garrison in the Schoharie settlements of NY. They burn several buildings and depart.

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2021-10-17

14 Oct 1777 Under a flag of truce, British Gen John Burgoyne requests terms. American Gen Horatio Gates demands unconditional surrender but soon agrees to an armistice.

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2021-10-15

12 Oct 1777 Gen Thomas Conway begins his secret writing campaign criticizing Gen Washington’s leadership of the Continental army. He writes to Gen Horatio Gates, suggesting Gates should be in Washington’s stead. .

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2021-10-13

11 Oct 1776 NY, NY Gen Wm Howe directs a division of troops to embark on transports & hazard the treacherous waters of the Hellgate. Under a blanket of fog, they sail through it & anchor off the Throg’s Neck.

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2021-10-11

11 Oct 1776 Battle of Valcour Island fought over 2 days, the British fleet under Sir Guy Carleton defeats 15 American gunboats led heroically by Benedict Arnold. This delaying action gave the patriot ground forces a chance to prepare a defense of New York.

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2021-10-11

8 Oct 1777 In the face of British Gen Henry Clinton’s advance, American forces withdraw up the North (Hudson) River and join forces with those of Gen Israel Putnam at New Windsor, NY.

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2021-10-08

3 Oct 1777 NYC British Gen Henry Clinton marches some 4,000 men up the North (Hudson) River to Tarrytown as the start of a diversion effort to help relieve Gen John Burgoyne’s beleaguered forces near Saratoga.

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2021-10-04

30 Sep 1778 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. A detachment of 80 Hessian dragoons is led into an ambush by 120 American dragoons hiding along Edgar’s Lane. They drove the Hessians into a ravine that led to the Hudson River, where those who did not drown were shot.

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2021-10-01

28 Sep 1781 Yorktown, VA. British retreat to sea blocked by the French navy while combined Franco-American forces (7.8K French, 3.1K militia & 8K Continentals) arrive within 2 miles of British lines. First cannon of siege fired by Gen Washington.

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2021-09-29

23 Sep 1776 Hoping to stop a larger British force on Lake Champlain, Gen Benedict Arnold’s fleet of 15 boats anchors at Bay St. Armand. He is just 10 miles south of his objective: Valcour Island.

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2021-09-24

22 Sep 1779 Capt John Paul Jones commanding Bonhomme Richard takes a pair of British ships off Flamborough Head, England. He also spies a 40- ship convoy at anchor at the mouth of the harbor.

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2021-09-23

15 Sep 1776 NY, NY Some 4K redcoats land at East River's Kip’s Bay. The American defenders offer very little resistance to the barrage of ships guns and waves of regulars, & Gen Washington is almost captured trying to rally them. They retreat to Harlem

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2021-09-15

13 Sep 1778 German Flatts (today Herkimer) NY. 450 Iroquois & Loyalists under Chief Joseph Brant & Capt William Caldwell launch an attack but settlers escape to forts Herkimer & Dayton. Only 4 were killed but 100 buildings burned before the raiders depart.

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2021-09-14

9 Sep 1782 Paris American commissioner John Jay discovers the French minister comte Vergennes sent reps to London for secret negotiations with the British. Based on this Benjamin Franklin insists the British negotiate with a single America, not 13 states.

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2021-09-10

9 Sep 1780 Defying orders from Gen Clinton in NYC, Gen Charles Cornwallis starts his move north to North Carolina by advancing on Charlotte.

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2021-09-10

6 Sep 1777 Newport, PA. Gen Nathanael Greene & Gen Adam Stephen assemble their 2 divisions while Gen William Maxwell defends along White Clay Creek.

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2021-09-07

3 Sep 1782 Battle of Trincomalee, India British Adm Edward Hughes’s 12-ship squadron faces off against French Adm de Suffern’s 14 ships in a 3-hour draw. Hughes, unable to take the French base, sails back to Madras.

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2021-09-04