Assault on Lunenburg
- When
- July 1, 1782
- Where
- Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
- Part of
- Raid on Lunenburg
On the morning of July 1, 1782, about 170 privateers in five heavily armed vessels overpowered the defence, capturing blockhouses and damaging the leaders' homes.
During the early morning of July 1, 1782, five American privateers that had left Boston under Captain Noah Stoddard began to raid Lunenburg. Stoddard led approximately 170 US privateers in five heavily armed vessels and overpowered Lunenburg's defence, capturing the blockhouses, burning Creighton's home, and filling Jessen's house with bullet holes. The privateers then looted the settlement and kept the militia at bay with the threat of destroying the entire town.
Sources
- Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-16
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