Battle of Delaware Bay

Battle of Delaware Bay
Part of the American Revolutionary War

Painting of the battle by William Nowland Van Powell
DateApril 8, 1782
Location
Off Cape May, Delaware Bay
Result American victory
Belligerents
United States Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Joshua Barney Christopher Mason
Josias Rogers
Strength
3 sloops 1 frigate
1 sloop-of-war
1 brig
Casualties and losses
4 killed
11 wounded
1 sloop captured		 20 killed
33 wounded
1 sloop-of-war captured

The Battle of Delaware Bay, or the Battle of Cape May, was a naval engagement fought between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States during the American Revolutionary War. A British force of three vessels attacked three American privateers that were escorting a fleet of merchantmen. The ensuing combat in Delaware Bay near Cape May ended with the American sloop Hyder Ally capturing the British sloop-of-war HMS General Monk.

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