On this day in 1776,
1,100 Georgian militia and Whig from South Carolina set the ship Inverness ablaze and cut it loose on the Savannah River. The fire ship, a weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives drifts into the brig HMS Nelly. These 2 ships drifted downstream, setting 3 more ships on fire forcing the British fleet to quit the fight, thus ending the Battle of Yamacraw Bluff.
More Colonial Battles
1,100 Georgian militia and Whig from South Carolina set the ship Inverness ablaze and cut it loose on the Savannah River. The fire ship, a weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives drifts into the brig HMS Nelly. These 2 ships drifted downstream, setting 3 more ships on fire forcing the British fleet to quit the fight, thus ending the Battle of Yamacraw Bluff.
More Colonial Battles
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