GALLEYS AND GUERILLAS: THE IMPROVISED WAR OF GEORGIA’S FORGOTTEN NAVY
Wednesday Courses | Available
David Jones
12:00 – 1:00 pm | Wednesday, July 1
From a daring July 1775 seizure of a British gunpowder ship on the Savannah River to Georgia’s outgunned river galleys audaciously engaging Royal Navy ships near Frederica in April 1778, this lecture recounts how an unlikely group of Georgians repeatedly outmaneuvered and outfought one of the world’s most formidable naval powers.