Nancy (1775)
Nancy was an American brig, also called brigantine, chartered to transport war supplies during the American Revolutionary War. After learning that independence had been declared, her captain, according to his daughter, raised the first American flag in a foreign port. Evading British capture, she was later intentionally destroyed with a huge blast on June 29, 1776, during the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey.
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Nancy (1775)
Nancy was an American brig, also called brigantine, chartered to transport war supplies during the American Revolutionary War. After learning that independence had been declared, her captain, according to his daughter, raised the first American flag in a foreign port. Evading British capture, she was later intentionally destroyed with a huge blast on June 29, 1776, during the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey.
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Nancy was an American brig, al ...... let near Cape May, New Jersey.
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Destroyed June 29, 1776 during theBattle of Turtle Gut Inlet
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Captain Hugh Montgomery
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Six 3-pounder guns
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*Joseph Shallcross
*Joseph Tatnall
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Nancy was an American brig, al ...... let near Cape May, New Jersey.
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