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The Continental sloop of war Ranger was launched from this island on May 10, 1777, sailed for France in November 1777 under Captain John Paul Jones with dispatches of Burgoyne’s surrender, and on February 14, 1778 received from the French fleet the first salute to the Stars and Stripes; the British sloop Mandrake was taken on April 24, 1778.
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Kittery, Maine · United States
