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Raid on Annapolis Royal (1781)
| Raid on Annapolis Royal | |||||||
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| Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Adams-Ritchie_House,_Annapolis_Royal,_NS.jpg) John Ritchie House, "Governor of Annapolis"[1] was taken captive in the raid | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 Great Britain | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 William Morgan[2][3][4][5][6][7] John Curtis (naval officer)[8][9] |
 Commander Phineas Lovett[10] John Ritchie (POW) Thomas Williams (POW) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 80 privateers | Local militia; 3 soldiers | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 killed (Acadian pilot) | No casualties | ||||||
The Raid on Annapolis Royal took place on 29 August 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. The raid involved two American privateers - the Resolution (commanded by William Morgan) and the Reprisal (commanded by John Curtis) - attacking and pillaging Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in revenge of the defeat of the Penobscot Expedition.[11][12] The privateers took captive the commander of the militia John Ritchie, described as the "Governor of Annapolis."[13] One historian described it as "one of the most daring and dramatic raids upon Nova Scotia."[14]
- ^ There was a Governor of Nova Scotia and a Governor for the town of Annapolis.
- ^ Boston
- ^ Beverly
- ^ Cato[usurped]
- ^ p.86
- ^ p. 92
- ^ p. 258
- ^ p. 258
- ^ p. 254
- ^ "Capt. William BISHOP b. 1732 New London, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 21 Feb 1815 Greenwich, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada".
- ^ Dunn, Brenda (2004). A History of Port-Royal-Annapolis Royal, 1605-1800. Nimbus. pp. 222–223. ISBN 978-1-55109-740-4.
- ^ John Dewar Faibisy. Privateering and Piracy: The Effects of New England Raiding Upon Nova Scotia During the American Revolution, 1775-1883. University of Massachusetts. 1972. p. 185
- ^ "Massachusetts Historical Society Collections". Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society. 1792.
- ^ https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.ca/&httpsredir=1&article=2321&context=dissertations_1 [bare URL PDF]
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