# history amrev armylife

2 Sep 1775 Beverly, MA. Gen George Washington commissions the 1st US warship – schooner Hannah. Capt Nicholas Boughton’s 1st mission is to attack British supply & transport ships in Boston Harbor.#RevWar

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26 Aug 1778 Philadelphia, PA A member of the British Carlisle Commission, George Johnstone is ordered home for attempting to bribe Congressmen Joseph Reed, Robert Morris & Francis Dana. The peace commission ended in failure.

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24 Aug 1777 Gen Benedict Arnold writes Gen Horatio Gates, that the garrison held off a superior force against all odds. British retreated from Ft Stanwix in great haste and abandoning their baggage. He dispatched Tuscarora and Oneida scouts after them. # AmRev

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23 Aug 1777 Fort Stanwix, NY British forces under Lt Col Barry St Leger panic on the arrival of Col Benedict Arnold’s relief column. They abandon the siege in a flight west, smashing the western prong of Gen Burgoyne's strategy.

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19 Aug 1777 Stillwater, NY. Gen Horatio Gates arrives & takes command of the Northern Department from Gen Phillip Schuyler, whose army has grown to 4,500 men.

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18 Aug 1780 Fishing Creek, SC. Col Banastre Tarleton &350 Loyalists surprise a Patriot force under Gen Thomas Sumter, 40 miles from Camden, killing 150, wounding & capturing 300, & freeing 100 British prisoners. Loyalists lost just 16 killed.

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17 Aug 1785, Jonathan Trumbull, governor of both the colony & state of CT, dies in Lebanon, CT. Trumbull served continuously in his capacity as governor of first the colony and then the state of Connecticut until 1784, the only governor to do so.

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14 Aug 1780 Rugeley’s Mills, SC. Geb Horatio Gates’s forces arrive & are joined by 800 VA militia under Gen Edward Stevens. Gates sends 400 men to assist Gen Thomas Sumter on a raid on a British supply train & continues his march on Camden.

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14 Aug 1777 Sancoik (Van Schaik’s Mill) NY. Lt Col Friederich Baum’s Germans & Loyalists scatter a force of 300 militia. Intent on attacking any other rebels in the area, Baum requests reinforcements from British Gen John Burgoyne.

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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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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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5 Aug 1781 Battle of Dogger Bank Adm Sir Hyde Parker’s fleet wags a terrific battle with Dutch Adm Johan Zoutman’s 7 SOLs. Both fleets enabled the convoys they were escorting to escape but each suffered over 400 casualties and much damage to their ships.

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4 Aug 1777 Philadelphia, PA The Continental Congress appoints Gen Horatio gates to replace Gen Phillip Schuyler as commander of the Northern Department.

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