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It made slow progress, however, due to contrary winds, [3] arriving in Newport on September 1, and the Americans had already retreated from the island after the inconclusive Battle of Rhode Island on August 29, 1778. [5] Rather than disembark Grey's troops at Newport, Clinton decided to pursue other objectives.
The attack on Orleans was a naval and air action during World War I on 21 July 1918 when a German submarine fired on a small convoy of barges led by a tugboat off Orleans, Massachusetts, on the eastern coast of the Cape Cod peninsula. Several shells fired during the engagement likely missed their intended maritime or aircraft targets and fell ...
The Historical Marker Database, Commemorating the Battle of Rock Harbor, retrieved April 22, 2022 Swift, Charles Francis, Cape Cod, the Right Arm of Massachusetts, An Historical Narrative, Registered Publishing Company, p. 249, Retrieved April 21, 2022
Battles of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts (13 P) Pages in category "Battles in Massachusetts" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Battle of Trois-Rivières: June 8, 1776: Quebec: British victory: Americans forced to evacuate Quebec [26] Battle of Sullivan's Island: June 28, 1776: South Carolina: American victory: British attack on Charleston is repulsed [27] Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet: June 29, 1776: New Jersey: American victory [28] Battle of Gwynn's Island: July 8–10 ...
The Bourne Rotary, shown here in May, is on the south side of the Bourne Bridge. Pavement upgrades and widening work at the rotary amounting to about $1.8M in cost is expected to begin in the ...
A 2014 Cape Cod Commission report identified the Bourne Rotary as a Barnstable County high-crash location using 2006 to 2008 state transportation data. There were 71 crashes during that time or 1. ...
The Col. James Barrett Farm (Barrett's Farm) is a historic American Revolutionary War site in Concord, Massachusetts, associated with the revolution's first battle, the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord. His farm was the storage site of all the town of Concord's militia gunpowder, weapons and two pairs of prized bronze cannons.