Battle of Nassau, a 1776 American raid during the American War of Independence
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From February 17 to April 8, 1776, he commanded the ship during the first Continental Navy-Marine Corps amphibious expedition—the cruise to New Providence, in the Bahamas, to seize essential military supplies from the British garrison at Nassau.
Here the Commodore decided to make an attack on New Providence, capture the enemy's stores and cripple his supplies.