# history amrev

3 Aug 1780 HQ Peekskill, NY Gen Washington appointed Gen Arnold to take command of the fortifications at West Point. “Sir You are to proceed to West Point & take the command of the Post, & its dependencies...”

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3 Aug 1779 NYC British Commodore George Collier sails with a fleet & 1,500 regulars to help relieve the besieged defenders at Penobscot Bay, MA.

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2 Aug 1779 Chesapeake Bay, VA An American squadron of frigates USS Deane under Capt James Nicholson & USS Boston under Capt Samuel Tucker sail on an Atlantic cruise that results in taking 8 prize ships.

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2 Aug 1780 Canajoharie, NY Chief Joseph Brant leads an attack by 500 Loyalists & Iroquois against Ft Plank, on the Mohawk R & seizes several prisoners before withdrawing from the fort.

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21 July 1776 The British packet Glasgow became stuck in the sand at Spencer’s Inlet SC. A South Carolina Row Battery, commanded by Lt. Francis Pickering of the SC 2nd Regiment, discovered the Glasgow Packet and captured it.

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19 Jul 1779 Minisink, NY Hoping to divert American forces under Gen James Clinton from attacking the Six nations Territory Chief Joseph Brant’s force of Loyalists & Mohawks stage a diversionary attack on the settlement & gather food & booty.

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15-16 July 1779 The British stronghold, Little Gibraltar, falls when Continental Army’s Light Infantry led by Gen Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point in a bold bayonet attack. British suffer over 130 casualties & 500 captured vs less than 100 casualties.

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8 Jul 1777 NYC Gen William Howe’s army begins embarking on board the British fleet for a long voyage to the Chesapeake Bay. This will seal Gen John Burgoyne’s fate even as his army is moving triumphantly south from Canada.

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4 Jul 1778 Brunswick, NJ The court-martial of disgraced Continental Gen Charles Lee begins with Gen William Alexander presiding. Charges include disobeying orders, misconduct before the enemy, and disrespect toward the commander in chief.

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2 Jul 1779 British LtCol Banastre Tarleton leads a detachment of dragoons & infantry in a foray on Poundridge, NY. He drives off the 2nd Continental Dragoons. But the dragoons rally when militia fire pins down the British. Tarleton’s troops withdraw.

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1 Jul 1779 Virginia Gov Thomas Jefferson orders all Loyalists in the state to be prepared for deportation.

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29 Jun 29, 1776, Turtle Gut Inlet NJ Brigantine Nancy carrying gunpowder attacked by 2 British ships. Capt John Barry in frigate Lexington with frigate Wasp sailed in to assist. Barry boarded Nancy & unloaded powder & blasted the enemy boarding party.

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24 Jun 1753 William Hull is born in Derby, CT. Hull rose to become a Maj in the Mass. Line, leading a detachment at Stony Point in 1779. Post he rose to the rank of general &Pres Jefferson appointed him Gov of Michigan Territory in 1805.

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19 Jun 1778 Philadelphia, PA Gen Benedict Arnold rides into the city at the head of a troop of dragoons & takes command as military governor. But he soon becomes distracted by the beautiful young daughter of a prominent Loyalist, Margaret “Peggy” Shippen.

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17 Jun 1778 British Adm Augustus Keppel’s fleet is fired upon by 2 French cruisers off the coast of England. The act of war results in the British seizing one, Belle Poule, which has plans for an impending French naval offensive with 27 SOL.

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17 Jun 1776 Philadelphia, PA Continental Congress is stunned by the defeat at Trois Rivieres & appoints Gen Horatio Gates to replace Gen John Sullivan.

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14 Jun 1775 Continental Army was created by the Second Continental Congress as a unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain, with George Washington appointed as its commander. Six companies of rifleman from VA, PA & MD form the first units.

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13 Jun 1776 Boston, MA American artillery batteries under the command of Gen Benjamin Lincoln pound the HMS Renown, driving it from the harbor. The long British blockade finally ends.

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7 June 1776 Charleston, SC Denied safe harbor at Wilmington, NC. A fleet under Commodore Peter Parker & Gen Henry Clinton enters the Palmetto State’s harbor & lands British troops on Long Island.

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28 May 1777 Morristown, NJ. Gen Washington’s army 8,000-strong leaves winter cantonment and deploys to the Middlebrook Valley to observe & counter possible British movement on Philadelphia.

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