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July 24 – American Revolutionary War – American forces, led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall, launch the Penobscot Expedition in what is now Castine, Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. history (until Pearl Harbor ). July – The Great Siege of Gibraltar (fourteenth and last military siege) begins.
Mar 26, 2024 · The Siege of Savannah (16 September to 20 October 1779) was a significant engagement in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Hoping to retake Savannah, Georgia, which had fallen to the British the previous year, a Franco-American force laid siege to the city.
The 1779 Sullivan Expedition (also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, the Sullivan Campaign, and the Sullivan-Clinton Genocide) was a United States military campaign during the American Revolutionary War, lasting from June to October 1779, against the four British-allied nations of the Iroquois (also known as the Haudenosaunee).
- June 18 – October 3, 1779
- American victory
The flotilla of 19 warships and 25 support vessels sailed from Boston on July 19, 1779, for the upper Penobscot Bay in the District of Maine carrying an expeditionary force of more than 1,000 American colonial marines (not to be confused with the Continental Marines) and militiamen.
- July 24 – August 16, 1779
- Penobscot Bay, Maine
- British victory
Penobscot Expedition. Penobscot Bay | Jul 24 - Aug 13, 1779. On July 24, 1779, the Massachusetts militia supported by a fleet of 20 transports and 19 armed vessels, began a siege of the British fortification in Penobscot Bay, Maine (at the time part of Massachusetts). Brig. Gen.
Apr 17, 2022 · The Clinton-Sullivan Campaign of 1779. Map of Gen. Sullivan’s march from Easton to the Senaca & Cayuga countries, 1779. The American destruction of the Six Nations' homelands came as a result of the destructive raids carried out by the Indians and American loyalists on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania in 1778.
