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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John Selman (privateer) (section Charlottetown)
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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Antigonish, Nova Scotia (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
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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Skmaqn–Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
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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Boston campaign (redirect from British forces in Boston (Winter 1774-1775))
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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American Revolutionary War (redirect from Revolutionary war 1775)
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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Nicholson Broughton (section Charlottetown)
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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Prince Edward Island (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
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 Maritimes (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
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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Canso, Nova Scotia (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
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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84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) (category Military units and formations established in 1775)
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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Military history of Canada (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
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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