The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . d andthe beginning of the Revolutionary War. After burningNorfolk Lord Dunmorecontinued to lay waste the coast inand around Hampton Roads, until in July, 1776, Lewis, attheheadof a Virginia force attacked him on Gwynns is-land; a ball passed through Lord Dunmores flag-ship, andhe exclaimed Good God, that it should ever cometo this,and hastily spreading his sails escaped with the prow ofhis vessel toward the sea. Captain Henry Maynard, onNovember 21, 1781, sailed through Hampton Roads with thehead of the famous pirate Blackbeard swingin
The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . d andthe beginning of the Revolutionary War. After burningNorfolk Lord Dunmorecontinued to lay waste the coast inand around Hampton Roads, until in July, 1776, Lewis, attheheadof a Virginia force attacked him on Gwynns is-land; a ball passed through Lord Dunmores flag-ship, andhe exclaimed Good God, that it should ever cometo this,and hastily spreading his sails escaped with the prow ofhis vessel toward the sea. Captain Henry Maynard, onNovember 21, 1781, sailed through Hampton Roads with thehead of the famous pirate Blackbeard swinging from thebow sprit of his vessel and bearing the captive crew,thirteen in all, to Williamsburg, where they were skull of Blackbeard was afterwards made into a drink-ing cup and is still preserved as a treasured relic in Vir-ginia. Decatur sailed from Hampton Roads when he wentto punish the Barbary Corsairs, this, together with thewars with France, England and Spain were glorious vic-tories for the American cause, as the fleets which sailed 53. from Hampton Roads went forth con(iuering and to con-qner. In 1807 the British Squardron was off Hampton Roadswatchin^S for some French Frigates which had takenrefuo-e at Annapolis. In the spring a whole boats crewof the British Sloop-or-war Halifax deserted and madeoff to Norfolk. The commander was informed that hismen had enlisted on the American Frigate the same time it was claimed that three deserters fromthe British Frigate Melampus had also enlisted on theChesapeake. Upon investigation it was found thatthese men were native Americans improperly impressedinto the British Service and therefore not subject to re-clamation. On June 21st Commodore James Barron assumed com-mand of the American Squadron at Hampton Roads. TheChesapeake started on her cruise. She had hardlygot under way from Hampton Roads when she was im-mediately boarded by a boat from the British Ship Leop-ard, her officers demanding the deserters
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