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Posted on April 11, 2024

This Week on Dispatches: Selden West on a Whaleboat Fight off Connecticut

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Selden West on her research into a fight between Patriot whaleboat crews and the British Navy off Stamford, Connecticut in 1778. New episodes of Dispatchesare available for free every Saturday evening(Eastern United States Time) on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Amazon Music, and the JAR Dispatches web site. Dispatchescan […]

by Editors

Posted on March 19, 2015February 23, 2015

Fort Franklin: Tory Bastion on Long Island Sound

Following their victory at the Battle of Long Island (Brooklyn) on August 27 1776, the British established their headquarters in New York City where it remained throughout the war. They extended their control eastward into Long Island, intending to use it as a combination barracks, larder, and fortress. The British studded the Island’s northern shoreline […]

by Richard F. Welch

Posted on November 1, 2013August 28, 2016

The Whale-boat Men of Long Island Sound

When the Continental Congress first commissioned the use of private ships and boats of war in April 1776, they specified that each vessel’s commander had to deliver a bond payable to the president of the Congress before the privateering commission — called a letter of marque and reprisal — could be granted. These bonds were […]

by Jackson Kuhl

Tag: Long Island Sound

This Week on Dispatches: Selden West on a Whaleboat Fight off Connecticut

Fort Franklin: Tory Bastion on Long Island Sound

The Whale-boat Men of Long Island Sound