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A successful British small boat action up the Connecticut River to burn the privateer fleet at Pettipaug (now Essex). Captain Richard Coote led a force of 136 British sailors and marines in six boats up the river, burning 25 American vessels and capturing two, with the loss of only two men. The raid devastated American privateering capabilities.
As part of the British expedition to the Chesapeake Bay in the middle of 1814, a naval force under Commodore James Alexander Gordon was ordered to sail up the Potomac River and attack Fort Washington. The raid was supposed to be a demonstration, to distract American troops from the main British attack on Washington under General Robert Ross.
British and American movements during the Chesapeake Campaign in 1814 Admiralty House in Bermuda, where the British attack was planned. The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn during Admiral John Warren's Chesapeake campaign.
The Chesapeake Raid was an American Revolutionary War campaign by British naval forces under the command of Commodore Sir George Collier and land forces led by Major General Edward Mathew. Between 10 May and 24 May 1779 these forces raided economic and military targets up and down Chesapeake Bay. The speed with which the British moved caught ...
The British Army said the victim, who is in his 40s, suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to a hospital for treatment. Man arrested after British soldier was stabbed and seriously hurt in ...
The Raid on Havre de Grace was a seaborne raid that took place on 3 May 1813 during the broader War of 1812.A squadron of the British Royal Navy under Rear Admiral George Cockburn attacked the town of Havre de Grace, Maryland, at the mouth of the Susquehanna River.
The killer recorded the videos while en route from Houston to New Orleans in the rented Ford F-150 Lightning EV he used to carry out the attack, according to the feds. He had picked up the truck ...
As the gunfire pops off, the videographer, along with the entire crowd, makes a mad dash for safety, the footage shows. “Oh s–t! Oh hell no!,” the man recording shouts.