| Battle off Yarmouth (1777) | |||||||
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| Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:USS_Cabot_(1775).png) USS Cabot | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 United Kingdom | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Joseph Olney Lieut. Benjamin Knight |
 John Burr[1][2] | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 140 men | 32 guns | ||||||
The Battle off Yarmouth took place on 28 March 1777 during the American Revolutionary War off the coast of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.[3] The battle is the first American armed vessel to engage the British Navy. The British vessel HMS Milford forced the American USS Cabot aground and the American crew escaped among the inhabitants of Yarmouth.[4][5][6]
- ^ "John Burr (c.1725-1776)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Smith, Charles Richard (1975). Marines in the Revolution: A History of the Continental Marines in the American Revolution, 1775-1783. History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. p. 434.
- ^ Smith, Charles Richard (1975). "Marines in the Revolution: A History of the Continental Marines in the American Revolution, 1775-1783". History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. p. 111.
- ^ "How Zachariah Foote, of Yarmouth, Endured the American Revolutionary War". yarmouthhistory.ca. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The Sailing Navy, 1775–1854. New York, New York: Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-415-97872-9.
- ^ Maclay, Edgar Stanton (1894). A History of the United States Navy, from 1775 to 1893. Vol. 1. p. 85.[permanent dead link]