| Raid on Saint John | |||||||
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| Part of the American Revolutionary War | |||||||
.jpg) Fort Frederick (Saint John, New Brunswick) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Great Britain | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Jeremiah O'Brien[1][2] Stephen Smith (privateer)[3][4] |
 Captain Frederick Sterling | ||||||
The Raid on Saint John took place on 27 August 1775 during the American Revolutionary War. The raid involved American privateers from Machias, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay attacking Saint John, Nova Scotia on the northeast shore of the Bay of Fundy(in present day New Brunswick).[5][6][7][8] The privateers intended to stop the export of supplies being sent to the loyalists in Boston. This raid was the first hostile act committed against Nova Scotia and it resulted in raising the militia across the colony.[9]
- ^ Captain Jeremiah O'Brien, Machias, Maine, p. 88
- ^ Williamson, William D. (1832). The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, 1602, to the Separation, A. D. 1820, Inclusive. Vol. II. Hallowell, Maine: Glazier, Masters & Company. pp. 431–432.
- ^ "Military operations in eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the revolution". 1867.
- ^ Sprag's Journal of Maine's history, pp. 30–31
- ^ p.63
- ^ Naval Documents of the American Revolution, p. pp. 445–446
- ^ Murdoch. History of Nova Scotial, Vol. 2, p. 554
- ^ Ropes ships
- ^ CHAPTER_XXIV_AFFAIRS_ON_THE_ST_JOHN_DURING_THE_REVOLUTION