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Fort William and Mary sketch by Wolfgang William Romer (1705). On December 14, 1774, local Patriots from the Portsmouth area, led by local political leader and rebel activist John Langdon, stormed the post (overcoming a six-man caretaker detachment) and seized the garrison's gunpowder supply, which was distributed to local militia through several New Hampshire towns for potential use in the ...
After the British abandoned the fort in the Revolution, the Patriots probably renamed it Fort Hancock. [12] The plaque currently on the fort is dedicated "In commemoration of the first victory of the American Revolution. The capture, on this site of Fort William and Mary, 14–15 December 1774." [13]
Fort William and Mary by Wolfgang William Romer (1705). Fort Constitution in the 19th century. Battery Farnsworth, 8-inch disappearing gun emplacement, Fort Constitution. The first fort in the Portsmouth area was Fort William and Mary (called The Castle until circa 1692) in New Castle, [8] initially garrisoned before 1632 and perhaps the oldest continuously fortified site in the British ...
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In December 1774 HMS Canceaux, under the command of Lt. Henry Mowat, [3] attempted to restore order to Fort William and Mary following the seizure of supplies by colonial forces led by Paul Revere. The fort, located on New Castle Island near Portsmouth, New Hampshire , was seen as essential to reasserting control over the insurrection mounting ...
2006-03-02 16:23 Hugh Manatee 1106×423×8 (96866 bytes) Fort William and Mary, New Castle, NH; from "An Explanation on the Prospect Draft of Fort William and Mary on Piscataqua River in ye Province of New Hampshire on the Continent of America," 1705. New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH.
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Fort William and Mary was the site of one of the first acts of the American Revolution. On the afternoon of December 14, 1774, colonists arrived aboard gundalows (sailing barges) and raided the fort. Severely outnumbered, Captain John Cochran and the fort's five soldiers surrendered, whereupon the rebels loaded onto a boat 100 barrels of gunpowder.