Издательство: | Bookvika publishing |
ISBN: | 978-5-5118-0117-9 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Continental gunboat Philadelphia is the only surviving gunboat built and manned by American Forces during the Revolutionary War. Part of a hastily constructed fleet, she is one of 15 small craft with which General Benedict Arnold fought about 30 British vessels off Valcour Island in Lake Champlain in October 1776.