Boston 1775

Last month I wrote about a Royal Navy commander named George Collier and his capture of the U.S.S. Hancock . In the late nineteenth cen...

As described yesterday , on 8 July 1777, after a chase and running battle lasting almost forty hours, H.M.S. Rainbow captured the Hancock ,...

We now return to the sea battle between Capt. John Manley of the Continental Navy ’s Hancock and Cdr. Sir George Collier of the Royal Nav...

We don’t have Capt. John Manley ’s account of the 7 July 1777 sea battle I’ve been recounting, but we do have the entries from Capt. Hector ...

One of the striking details of Cdr. Sir George Collier ’s account of the sea battle on 6-8 July 1777, recounted yesterday , is how his ship ...

On the morning of 6 July 1777, H.M.S. Rainbow sailed out of Halifax harbor. It was a fifth-rate frigate equipped with 44 guns. Behind the ...