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The Georgia–Florida Contest in the American Revolution, 1776–1778. University, AL: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-0225-2. OCLC 10483821. Siebert, William (October 1943). "Privateering in Florida Waters and Northward in the Revolution". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 22 (2). Florida Historical Society: 62– 73. JSTOR ...
Armed parties of the so-called "Patriots of Florida" made forays from Sawpit Bluff to Talbot Island during the Revolution of East Florida, or the so-called "Patriots' War". On August 19, 1813, Capt. Tomás Llorente sent out a detachment of thirty-two men with the Spanish gunboat Immutable, to attack rebel camps in the area. The soldiers found a ...
This is a list of military actions in the American Revolutionary War. Actions marked with an asterisk involved no casualties. Major campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war Boston campaign (1775–1776) Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776) New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga campaign (1777) Philadelphia campaign (1777 ...
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
5.1 British return: 1776–1777. ... 1776–1789 American Revolution: 1765–1783 ... Florida, or England, where they could remain free. [175]
Landmarks of the American Revolution. Cashin, Edward J (1999). The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-1908-7. Searcy, Mary (1985). The Georgia–Florida Contest in the American Revolution, 1776–1778. University, AL: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173 ...
The Gulf Coast campaign or the Spanish conquest of West Florida in the American Revolutionary War, was a series of military operations primarily directed by the governor of Spanish Louisiana, Bernardo de Gálvez, against the British province of West Florida.
Detail from a 1776 map showing the British province of West Florida. Payne cruised West Florida's waters uneventfully until August 1779. On August 27 he sent a boat with a few men to make contact with a detachment of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Dickson's men at Manchac. The boat never returned.