HMS Syren

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The War Years (1775-1783) April 10, 2014 August 28, 2016

“Strange Mismanagement”: The Capture of HMS Syren

by Christian M. McBurney

After a British fleet of seventy-one warships and transports entered Narragansett Bay on December 7, 1776, and the next day landed soldiers that occupied…

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