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The Battle of the Porpoises (Portuguese: Batalha das Toninhas) is the name given to a military blunder involving the Brazilian Navy in the Gibraltar Strait, near the end of the First World War. [ 1 ] While on patrol for potential German submarines, the crew of the Bahia slaughtered a passing shoal of porpoises , mistaking them for the periscope ...
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 ...
Another group raided Cape Porpoise, which was a desolate community inhabited principally by unshielded fishermen. [17] At Saco, the Wabanaki killed 11 and took 24 captive. (Saco was raided again in 1704 and 1705.) [ 18 ] [ 3 ] They overwhelmed the garrison in the fort at Winter Harbor (in present-day Biddeford near Biddeford Pool ), forcing ...
HMS Porpoise was a 12-gun sloop-of-war originally built in Bilbao, Spain, as the packet ship Infanta Amelia. On 6 August 1799 HMS Argo captured her off the coast of Portugal . [ 2 ] Porpoise wrecked in 1803 on the North coast of what was then part of the Colony of New South Wales , now called Wreck Reefs , off the coast of Queensland , Australia .
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The Battle of Cape Coast was a naval engagement between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of England. Background. In the mid-16th century, ...
The Northeast Coast campaign (1723) occurred during Father Rale's War from April 19, 1723 – January 28, 1724. In response to the previous year, in which New England attacked the Wabanaki Confederacy at Norridgewock and Penobscot, the Wabanaki Confederacy retaliated by attacking the coast of present-day Maine that was below the Kennebec River, the border of Acadia.
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