An Event Chronology Based on Louisbourg Accounts Not Available in the Archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg, By Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions, 2004 - Present

1777

• August 13, 1777
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)
  

Philadelphia ...

The following account, which was brought by the British ship of war Syren, lately arrived at New York, was published in a hand bill there on the first instant.

Halifax, July 12.

This day arrived his Majestys hip Rainbow, Sir George Collier, having brought into this harbour the HANCOCK frigate, commanded by Mr. MANLEY; the following are the particulars relative to the meeting of the Rebel Squadron.

... Manley seemed much chagrined at his not having engaged the Rainbow when he found she was but a forty gun ship, as he had all along mistaken her for the Raisonable, whom he knew was very lately at Louisburg . 

We hear the prize sloop which the Rebel fleet set fire to when chased by the Rainbow, was called the Britannia, and loaded with coals from Louisburg for Halifax, Hinxman master ...

January 22, 1777
TPPN

Boston, December 26.

... The Alfred man of war, of the American navy, with the sloop Providence, sailed from Rhode Island the second of November. On the twelfth they took a brig, with a very valuable cargo, from Liverpool for Halifax; and on the thirteenth, off Louisburg, they took a fine transport, laden with cloathing for Canada; the sixteenth, off Cape North, they took a snow with a cargo of fish, &c. from Gaspey for Barbadoes ...