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Eighteenth Century Military Material Culture: An Annotated Bibliography (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen G. Warfel.

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From Who’s Afraid to Yo Solo : Results of the University of West Florida’s 2017 Maritime Archaeology Field School's survey for HMS Mentor. (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Van Slyke.

The Siege of Pensacola, fought in 1781, was the culmination of Spain's conquest of the British province West Florida during the American Revolutionary War. Associated with this event was the loss of HMS Mentor, formerly, the American-built Who’s Afraid. According to the vessel’s log, the 24-gun sloop of war was sent up "Middle River" to be scuttled and burned as Spanish General Don Bernardo de Gálvez led his troops into Pensacola Bay. Recently uncovered historical documents have led...

"Guns and ships, and so the balance shifts":A Material Culture Analysis of Betsy and the British Naval Strategy of Scuttling during the Battle of Yorktown, 1781 (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian M Schuler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. By the time General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781, the majority of his coveted shipping fleet laid abandoned at the bottom of the York River. In 1978, the Yorktown Shipwreck Archaeological Project was launched with the intention of surveying several of these...

Physical Characteristics, Including Digital Models, of Seventeen Revolutionary War Cannons from the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa M Carpenter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A total of nineteen cannons were recovered from the Savannah River during the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) in 2021. It had been assumed that these cannons were from a British scuttled ship during the American Revolutionary War in 1779. Seventeen of these cannons were later transported to the...

Richard Henderson Home: Archaeological Data Recovery at Satterwhite Point (31VN102) John H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir, Vance County, North Carolina (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel D. Gunn. Jeffrey W. Gardner. Lawrence E. Abbott. Jean Hendrickson. Paul E. Brockington, Jr..

Unexpected Discovery: An 18th-Century Cannon Cluster Site in the Savannah River (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Wilson. Stephen James.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In February 2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District recovered three cannon, a stocked anchor, and a number of wooden and metal materials while dredging regular maintenance areas in preparation for deepening associated with the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). A subsequent geophysical survey and diver...