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First Naval Battle of the Revolution | New Bedford News
In May 1775, just weeks after Lexington and Concord, fifty local militia from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, answered a midnight call to arms when a British ship, the HMS Falcon, began raiding their coast. With no formal army and little more than grit, they sailed into the fog aboard a sloop called the Success, launching a daring nighttime boarding action that captured two British vessels and took fifteen prisoners. This surprise attack, known as the Battle off Fairhaven, is now recognized as the first naval battle of the American Revolution — a bold, citizen-led defiance against imperial power…
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