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    The Raid on Charlottetown of 17–18 November 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, involved two American privateers of the Marblehead Regiment...
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    British armaments off Nova Scotia. Selman also participated in the Raid on Charlottetown (1775). Washington sent Selman with Nicholson Broughton to lead an...
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  • He was taken prisoner during the American Revolution in the Raid on Charlottetown (1775). In 1763, Wright assisted Captain Samuel Johannes Holland in...
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  • Acting-Governor Phillips Callbeck, having been captured in the Raid on Charlottetown (1775). On December 5, 1775 at 10:00 in the morning two American Privateers (80...
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    Marblehead Regiment raided Charlottetown, now in Prince Edward Island, on 17 November 1775, and three days later they raided Canso Harbor. On September 22,...
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    Access Genealogy. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2014. After the Raid on Charlottetown (1775), Hierlihy was the commander of the defence of Prince Edward...
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    Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen...
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  • Callbeck was taken prisoner by New England privateers in the Raid on Charlottetown (1775), shortly after being named colonial administrator during Patterson's...
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    conducting the Raid on Charlottetown (1775) and Canso, Nova Scotia where they took five prizes. (In the raid on Charlottetown, the privateers also sought...
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    Island was attacked by Massachusetts-based privateers in the Raid on Charlottetown (1775). They privateers stole the Colonial Seal and took several hostages...
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    to capturing fishing vessels off Canso, Nova Scotia, and the Raid on Charlottetown (1775). Late in May, General Gage received by sea about 2,000 reinforcements...
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  • Warren in the fall of 1775. The Hancock and Franklin were sent to the St Lawrence and participated in the Raid on Charlottetown (1775). This small navy was...
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  • Canso where five prizes of dubious legality were taken. They also raided Charlottetown without regard to orders to respect Canadian property. The story...
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  • 1776) Raid on St. John (August 27, 1775) Raid on Charlottetown (November 17, 1775 – November 18, 1775) Raid on Yarmouth (December 5, 1775) Raid on Canso...
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    Beginning in August 1775, American privateers raided towns in Nova Scotia, including Saint John, Charlottetown, and Yarmouth. In 1776, John Paul Jones and...
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    armaments off Nova Scotia.[page needed] On the expedition, Broughton participated in the Raid on Charlottetown. As a result of Broughton's expedition to...
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  • Canso where five prizes of dubious legality were taken. They also raided Charlottetown settlement without regard to orders to respect Canadian property...
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    the name of a colony. During the American Revolutionary War Charlottetown was raided in 1775 by a pair of American-employed privateers. Two armed schooners...
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    island's settlers. During the American Revolutionary War, Charlottetown was raided in 1775 by a pair of US-employed privateers. Two armed pirate schooners...
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    all kinds of garden stuff[...]altho' they are very bad farmers" Charlottetown raided by privateers in November and governor, surveyor general and many...
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    Battle of Winnepang 1723 Raid on Canso 1724 Raid on Annapolis Royal 1725 Raid on Canso 1744 – 1748 King George's War 1744 Raid on Canso 1744 Siege of Fort...
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    The Invasion of Quebec (June 1775 – October 1776, French: Invasion du Québec) was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army...
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    the targets of American raiders. Charlottetown, the capital of the new colony of St. John's Island, was ransacked in 1775 with the provincial secretary kidnapped...
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    the American Revolutionary War, which took place between 1775 and 1783, Charlottetown was raided by a pair of US-employed privateers who imprisoned the...
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    Marblehead Regiment raided Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on November 17, 1775 and three days later, they raided Canso Harbor. On September 22, 1776...
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    but not raids on land targets), the privateering ships Hancock and Franklin made an unopposed landing at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on 17 November...
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    Franklin made an unopposed landing at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on 17 November 1775. Three days later, they raided Canso Harbor, Nova Scotia. The...
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    patrolled Libya's coast. In May 2011, Charlottetown came under hostile fire from a shore battery, marking the first attack on a Canadian warship since the Korean...
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  • Peninsula Campaign Battle of Hudson's Bay Northeast Coast Campaign (1703) Raid on Deerfield Battle at Port-la-Joye Battle of Grand Pré Battle of Fort Necessity...
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    pressed them all over the North Atlantic region in 1805, from Halifax and Charlottetown to Saint John and Quebec City. In early May, Vice Admiral Andrew Mitchell...
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