The Revolutionary War Battle America Forgot

Chelsea Creek, 27–28 May 1775

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ID16310444
AuthorsCraig J Brown (0000-0002-5125-978X, Craig J. Brown is a reformed accountant turned archaeologist and historian, with a special interest in the agencies and impacts of colonization and the development of state-level societies. Until 2012, he worked as a field archaeologist for Crane and Morrison Archaeology, in Freeport, Maine; since 2006, he has served as the director for the Oyster River Environs Archaeology Project (OREAP), which is investigating the seventeenth-century settlement of Oyster River Plantation (now Durham, New Hampshire)...., corresponding author), Victor T Mastone (Victor T. Mastone, who holds an M.A. in Anthropology and M.B.A. in Arts Administration, is Director and Chief Archaeologist of the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources. He has also served as Assistant Secretary for Administration and Finance for Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. He is a member of the Society for Historical Archaeology's UNESCO Committee and of the North American Society for Oceanic History. Until recently, he was an appointed member and...), Christopher V Maio (Christopher V. Maio, a Ph.D. candidate at the School for the Environment at the University of Massachusetts–Boston, is a geologist who researches changes in the coastal landscape over decades to millennia in response to anthropogenic modifications, sea-level rise, and extreme storm events with methods including GIS, sediment coring, ground penetrating radar, and radiocarbon dating. He is currently a Guest Student Researcher with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Coastal Research Group. His...)
Year2013
Volume86
Issue3
Pages398-432
Publication date2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe New England Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/tneq_a_00295
OpenAlexW2028410570
LanguageEN
References cited2

Overshadowed by the iconic battles at Lexington/Concord and Bunker Hill, the Battle of Chelsea Creek (27-28 May 1775) is notable for being the provincials’ first coordinated offensive gesture. Moving to interdict livestock and supplies from the besieged British garrison in Boston, they entered into a running engagement with British marines, eventually capturing and destroying the British schooner HMS Diana

Ancient history · Archaeology · Battle · Bunker · Offensive · Operations research · Spanish Civil War · Engineering · History · Military History and Strategy

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