Word: attacking
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...hinder British naval action is doubtful. If Washington is also doubtful, he is not the kind of leader to share his fears with an already wavering public. Washington's aides would neither confirm nor deny the dramatic rumor that Sir William Howe has thus far delayed his attack only because he is expecting the imminent arrival (probably this week) of his brother Admiral Lord Howe with another vast fleet-about 150 vessels and some 10,000 men. Also expected are the Hessian mercenaries whom King George is known to have hired. As Washington has said, "We may expect...
...command of Commodore Sir Peter Parker (two ships of the line, six frigates, the bomb ketch Thunder and more than 30 other vessels). This forced Parker's fleet and several thousand British regular troops under Major General Sir Henry Clinton to give up a combined land-and-sea attack on Fort Sullivan near Charles Town...
...British attack began on a low tide at 11:15 o'clock on the morning of June 28. Clinton had landed 2,500 light infantry, grenadiers and seamen on an undefended island northeast of Sullivan's Island and separated from it by a shallow passage known as "the Breach." The original plan called for a wading infantry attack on Sullivan's Island and a simultaneous naval assault. Parker accordingly anchored most of his fleet, including the flagship Bristol and the Experiment, both of 50 guns, only a few hundred yards from the fort and proceeded to pound...
...increase in privateering has been slow and intermittent, like the war itself. The first official use of Continental privateers occurred outside Boston last October, even before the congressional authorization. General Washington, lacking any naval cruisers to attack the British ships bringing supplies to the forces besieged inside the city, hired vessels to start making raids. Within a month, one of them, the Lee, made a major catch-the ordnance brigantine Nancy, loaded with 2,000 muskets and bayonets, 3,000 rounds of 12-pound shot, a large supply of gunpowder, flints and a huge mortar...
...13th and youngest child of a potter in Staffordshire. His schooling ended at the age of eight, when his father died, and he had to go to work as an apprentice in a pottery run by an older brother. He became an expert thrower on the wheel, but an attack of small pox led to an infection and chronic weakness in his right knee. (Constantly bothered by the condition, Wedgwood finally decided a few years ago to have his leg amputated...