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24 Aug 1776

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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 24, 1776

Page

2

Siege of Charles Town Bar Debacle Report from Parker Letter

Extract from Sir Peter Parker’s letter dated July 9 at Charles Town Bar recounts the August 23 attacked by the fleet under Clinton against Sullivan's Island. Numerous ships breached the bar, batteries silenced, but the land force failed to secure the North End, with heavy casualties aboard Bristol Experiment Active and Solebay, officers wounded and captured, and Captain Hope praised for his conduct.

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Peter Parker Stevens Admiralty Charles Town Bar Charles Town South Carolina Cape Fear Jane Clinton Long Island Sulivan’s Bristol Experiment Active Solobay N. W James Sphynx Acteon Syren Actron Hope Mount Pleasant Sulivan Majzity Sullivan’s Island Pike Solebay Morris Caulfield Molloy Nugent William Campbell Scott Chambers Mercury New-York Sir Peter Parker John Morris Alexander Scott William Williams Selebay Thomas Symonus Christopher Atkins Tobias Furneaux Anthony Hunt Friendshi Charles Hope Ranger Roger Willis Thunder James Reid Saint Laurence Joan Graves Winehall Lord George Germain Suivan’s Island Fanes Kingdom of Great Britain George Winn Little Warley Essex Court of Exchequer Scotland Terbert Mackworth Gnoll Glamorgan James Laroche Over Aldmondsbury Gloucester Henry Peyton Doddington Ile of Ely George Baker Given Scot Simons Fourneau Atkins Hunt Reed Friendship Art Sulivan Withalso Brill Fort Suivan Advan Geously
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British Seamen Volunteer In War Effort And Fort Sulivan Action

Report details British transports supplying sick and volunteers for ships. It notes Parker's squadron action at Fort Sulivan near Charles Town, with losses and damage to Bristol Experiment and other vessels, plus a lengthy critique of the engagement and communications, concluding with political commentary on American war conduct.

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Beaid Bonker Sulivan Si Porter Parker
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Sale by Auction of Lands in Staffordshire and Cheshire

Properties totaling about 539 acres in Eccleshall, Tunstall, and Weston go under the hammer on Monday September 2 1776 at the Royal Oak Inn Eccleshall. Multiple lots include farms at Seawood Pitts and Great Wood Heath with options to sell together or separately. Further parcels of nine to 57 acres lie in Afton Macclesfield and Droymen. Details from Mr Perry at Broughton Hall or Mr Gibbons Nantwich.

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Royal Oak Inn Eccleshall Stafford Tunstall Adbaston Joseph Scott Thomas Selman John Dawson Seawood Pitts Hick Ofey James Stoakes Weston Stancon Edward Adderley Thomas Seay Bowers Stanton John Cotton Abraham Martin Great Wood Heath Faid Samwel Barlow Lee Droymen Coldwich Thomas Bettfan Thomas Harding Fentley Macclesfield Came
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