O'Donnell: Fireships -- Special Operations During the Revolution
Wikipedia Commons 28 May 2021 Two hundred and forty-five years ago, precursors to America’s nascent special operations forces got off to a rough start. In August 1776, in the warm air of a summer night, two American ships glided silently toward their prey: the British twenty-gun HMS Rose and the forty-four-gun HMS Phoenix, the battleship of its time . Under the cloak of darkness, the unsuspecting British warships lay anchored in the Hudson River north of New York City. “The night wa...
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