Battle of Fort Morris



Locations

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1778/11/25 Lt Col Fuser lands a force of 250 men on Colonel's Island near Sunbury. Fuser leaves sixty men to guard the naval force at St Simon's Inlet and marches towards Sunbury with 180 men of the 60th Regiment towing two swivel guns mounted on a carriage.
1778/11/26 On the night of November 26th, Fuser occupies Sunbury. As his British regulars celebrate in the unfinished courthouse with a puncheon of rum, Captain Wulff of the Grenadiers does a reconnaissance of Fort Morris, but he can not find a gate in the darkness.
1778/11/27 In the morning Fuser demands the surrender of Fort Morris, but the fort's commander, Lieutenant Colonel John McIntosh, replies to Fuser that he should "come and take it!". Fort Morris State Historic Site, Midway
1778/12/01 Fuser withdraw his British Regulars back to British east Florida. Fort Morris State Historic Site, Midway

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