 Marker ID:
Local Title:
Capture of the Patriot
Location:
Museum Drive at the dam, Newport News VA Description:
"The Patriot, 60-ton Virginia Navy armed schooner
commanded by Lieut. James Watkins, was charged with the
defense of Warwick Co. inhabitants then harassed by
British plundering expeditions. In April 1781 in the James
River offshore, the Patriot was taken by a
heavily-manned and armed Royal Navy sloop in disguise. She
then joined Cornwallis' fleet in the York and passed to
the French by terms of capitulation."
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