Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

March 27 . . .

1780 - The Battle of Rantowle's Bridge. Two companies of British Light Infantry, American Loyalist Volunteers (North Carolina), and one company of Dragoons, crossed at Rantowle's in scows; the rest of the army crossed yesterday. Col. Hamilton, of the North Carolinians, and Dr. Smith, proceeding about a mile in front of the army, to Gov. Rutledge's house, were immediately surrounded by three hundred Continental Light Horse, and they consequently made prisoners. The British Dragoons fell in with them soon after, and had a skirmish; the Rebels soon gave way. Qr. Master Sergeant Mcintosh, of the Georgia Dragoons was badly wounded in the face by a broadsword. Several Dragoons of the Legion were wounded. How many of the Rebels got hurt we can't learn; but they did not keep up the combat long enough for many to receive damage. This morning, Capt. Saunders, who came in with the flag on the 24th, was sent out; his attendant, Capt. Wilkinson, not being mentioned in the body of the flag, is detained as a prisoner of war. We took up our ground on Gov. Rutledge's plantation, about one mile from his house, where we remained all night.

1794 - President Washington and Congress authorized creation of the U.S. Navy. Congress authorizes construction of 6 frigates, including Constitution. -and- James Monroe is appointed the American minister to France replacing Governeur Morris, whose recall the French have requested because of his royalist sympathies and meddling.

1813 - In a US attack on Fort George, near the mouth of the Niagra River, LTC Winfield Scott with a 4000-man force captures the 1600-man British garrison under General John Vincent. The British withdraw from Lake Erie. This action permits Captain Oliver Hazard Perry to surreptitiously remove five vessels form the Black Rock shipyard and take them to Presque Isle in order to reinforce the flotilla under construction there.

1814 - In the Creek Indian Wart, General Jackson led U.S. soldiers (Tennessee militia) who killed 700 Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River in Northern Alabama. Jackson lost 49 men. Creek resistance is ended.

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The correct name is not Horseshoe Bend, but Tohopeka, and Andrew Jackson is not a man of his word. While I'm at it, any Americans want to give Horseshoe Bend(b) or should I say Tohopeka a go?