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American Revolution Podcast

Episode 084 The Continental Navy Raids the Bahamas

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Continental Congress builds a small fleet to take on the British Navy. The new commander of the Continental Navy begins his command by disobeying orders to confront the British Navy directly. Instead, he launches a raid on the Bahamas to collect needed arms and ammunition. Visit https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this week's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today, episode 84, The Continental Navy raids the Bahamas.

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The Continental Congress had authorized the creation of a Continental Navy back in October of

1:11.6

1775, as I discussed back in episode 75.

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A real Navy, though, was more of a dream than a reality.

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Aside from the ships that Arnold had captured on Lake Champlain, and a handful of ships that General

1:26.8

Washington had acquired and which remained under Army control, the Continental Congress

1:32.4

had no ships.

1:34.0

Several colonies had launched their own ships,

1:37.0

mostly to attack and capture merchant ships supplying the regulars.

1:41.0

Many privateers were raiding British ships as well.

1:45.0

And this was actually quite helpful in capturing supplies and denying those supplies to the

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