HMS Surprise was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, which served throughout the American Revolutionary War and was broken up in 1783.
As we near the 250th anniversary of American independence, I have decided to concentrate on the little-known ... One of them closed the port of Boston in an effort to starve the city into submission, ...
Indeed, a newspaper announcement published to the “Pennsylvania Packet” in 1774 practically drips in ... “properly supplied with English and American papers and magazines” along with ...