Yankee Hero-Milford Engagement
Yankee Hero-Milford Engagement
YANKEE HERO-MILFORD ENGAGEMENT. 7 June 1776. While making a quick dash from Newburyport to Boston with a skeleton crew, the American privateer Yankee Hero ran into the British warship Milford off Cape Ann. Captain James Tracy's fourteen-gun brig was badly overmatched by Captain John Burr's twenty-eight-gun frigate. The British accounts say there was a short engagement, ending with Tracy's surrender at 5:50 p.m.; the American version says Tracy and his men put up gallant defense for over two hours. The Americans had sixteen or seventeen casualties, including Tracy who was wounded; the British admitted to having only one marine wounded.
revised by Robert K. Wright Jr.
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