New York saw its fair share of military action during the American Revolution. This spring, Dr. Daria Merwin, an underwater archaeologist by training and Co-Director of the Cultural Resource Survey Program at the New York State Museum spoke at the Museum about maritime military encounters that pitted Revolutionaries against full might of the British Navy.
What follows is extracted from her talk, which you can find here in its entirety. [Read more…] about Maritime Encounters Around Long Island During the American Revolution