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450:, Pickles ordered her to surrender. The English captain, Payne, laughed at him. Shots were exchanged simultaneously. Account of the action suggests the British crew put up a significant resistance and surrendered only after her commander, Lieutenant John Payne, was mortally wounded in the engagement.
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William S. Coker, Hazel P. Coker, William S. Coker, The siege of Mobile, 1780, in maps: with data on troop strength, military units, ships, casualties, and prisoners of war, including a brief history of Fort
Charlotte (Condé), Volume 9,
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British vessel was only recently advised of the state of war with Spain, and the American captain used a "strategem" to approach her within a few days of the declaration of war. Overhauling
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in March 1781. However, documentary evidence suggests that she arrived in
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bayonets, 30,000 uniforms, 51,314 musket balls, and 300,000 pounds of gunpowder from a French port by way of
Bermuda to Boston". Spain also provided almost eight million
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British General, Gálvez formulated a plan to attack the British forces once Spain declared war on Britain. After HMS
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Robert
Thonhoff, The Vital Contribution of Spain in the Winning of the American Revolution: An Essay on a Forgotten Chapter in the History of the American Revolution
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had contracted from the Spanish firm of José Gardoqui & Sons to ship: "215 bronze cannon, 4,000 field tents, 12,826 grenades, 30,00
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