Battle of Valcour On Lake Champlain October 11th 1776
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M. , the 12th, weighed anchor with a fresh breeze to the southward. The enemy's fleet at the same time got under way ; our gondola made very little way ahead. In the evening the wind modcakd, and we made such progress that at six o'clock next morning we were about off Willsborough, twenty-eight miles from Crown Point. The enemy's fleet were very little way above Schuyler's Island ; the wind breezed up to the southward, so that we gained very little by beating or rowing, at the same time the ene...my took a fresh breeze from the northeast, and by the time we had reached Split-Rock, were alongside of us. The Washington and Congress were in the rear, the rest of our fleet were ahead BATTI. K OF VAI. COUR. I 7 except twogondolas sunk at Schuyler's Island. The IVas/mig- ton galley was i. I such a shattered condition, and had so many men killed and wounded, she struck to the enemy after receiv- ing a few broadsides. We were then attacked in' the Congress galley by a ship mounting twelve cighteen-pounders, a schooner of fourteen sixes, and one of twelve sixes, two under our stern, and one on our broadside, within musket-shot.
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