Naval actions and dispatches from Newport 1778
Long document recounts Captain Brisbane and Admiral Howe era events near Newport Rhode Island in July August 1778. Reports French Toulon fleet arrival, shore battery preparations, ship dispositions like Flora Juno Cerberus Lark Orpheus and galleys, exchanges of prisoners, and Brigadier Pigot's defense plan. Includes signals with Captain Harmood and Sphynx patrol, and British naval movements toward Block Island and Narragansett passages.
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Seong Ae
Pe Beatau
Bolton
Sullivan
New England
Newport
Pigot
England
Block Island
New York
Harmood
Peale
Long Island
Andrew Congalton
Flora
Smith
Admiral Gambier
J. Brisbane
Brisbane
Viscount Howe
Rhode Island
S. E
Brenton
Seconnet
Naraganset Passage
Connanicut
Juno
Coddington
Orpheus
Dyer’s Island
Arnold’s Point
Christian
Fox-hill
Sir Robert Pigot
Bristol
Connanicur
Arnold
la Fayette
Providence
Glover’s
Vernon’s
Poon’s
Goat Island
Stanhope
Pigot Alley
Lark
Cerberus
Poft Island
Blue Rocks
Coddington Cove
Narraganset
Jones
Sachuell Beach
Easton’s Beach
Brenton’s Ledge
Captain Brisbane
Jesis
Furnival
Jann
Peft Island
Dyer’s
Narraganset Passage
Church’s Point
Hatton's
Brenton’s Reef
Montel Points
Eee
Fee
Rose Island
Messrs
Furnival and
Easton’s
Clinton
Castle Point
Saumarez
Toulon
Count d’Estaing
Brenton’s Point
Gould Island
Eagle
Button Bay
St. Albai’s
Cape Cod
Nantasket Rod
Boston
Sir Henry Clinton
Dford
Grey
Fanshaw
Rhode Irsland
Long Island Sound
Hotham
Centwion
Preston
St. Albat’s
Frigae
Ehreré Harvour
York
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