On this day 250 years ago at the Battle of Saint-Pierre in Quebec Province, across the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City, the Americans defeated the British, although most of the men on both sides were Canadien. About150 Canadiens led by Clement Gosselin and Pierre Ayotte fighting alongside 80 Continental Army soldiers led by John Dubois, defeated and captured 46 Canadien Loyalists who were advancing on the Continental Army’s fortification at Pointe-Levis across the river from Quebec City. The Canadien Loyalists lost three to six men killed and ten wounded. Only a few of the Loyalist Canadiens escaped. The Patriots captured most of the Canadien Loyalists, but released all but 21 men who they marched off as prisoners.

Six men on the Patriot side were killed, but I have not been able to identify their names. Ayotte would be captured a couple of months after the battle but Gosselin would join the 2nd Canadian Regiment and serve in the Continental Army until 1783.

Sources: https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/americans-win-the-battle-of-saint-pierre.html; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saint-Pierre

On this day 250 years ago, on Tybee Island, Georgia, Archibald Bulloch, former representative of Georgia in the Continental Congress who would soon become the first Governor of independent Georgia, led a party of 30 Creek warriors and at least 40 but maybe as many as 100 Georgia militia, on a raid to capture slaves who had runaway to join the British. The HMS Hinchinbrook, HMS Cherokee and other British warships were anchored off the island and a party of 12 Royal Marines was onshore cutting wood with the assistance of escaped slaves, although most of the runaway slaves on the island were able to escape before the raid. The Hinchinbrook and Cherokee opened fire on Georgia militia during the raid, but Bulloch’s men killed two or three Royal Marines and one Loyalist, an unknown number of marines, Loyalists and slaves were wounded, the Georgia militia captured 12 or 13 runaway slaves, one British marine and one Loyalist, and drove away the British warships with no loss of American life, except that one of the Creek warriors was killed in a drunken brawl with a militiaman.

Sources: https://revolutionarywar.us/year-1776/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Tybee_Island