Battle of Lake Pontchartrain
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battle-of-lake-pontchartrain-207-2882535
title:
Battle of Lake Pontchartrain
text:
The Battle of Lake Pontchartrain was a single-ship action on September 10, 1779, part of the Anglo-Spanish War. It was fought between the British sloop-of-war HMS West Florida and the Continental Navy schooner USS Morris in the waters of Lake Pontchartrain, then in the British province of West Florida. West Florida was patrolling on Lake Pontchartrain when it encountered Morris, which had set out from New Orleans with a Spanish and American crew headed by Continental Navy Captain William Pickles
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encyclopedia
description:
1779 naval battle of the American Revolution
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Pontchartrain
date created:
2009-12-03T22:24:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T22:20:33Z
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