Camp in Cambridge, Oct. 16th 1775
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. . . in my last I mentioned the building the flat Bottom Boats which are now almost compleated and the men are daily exercising in them, such as learning to Row ー paddle ー land & clime a precipice & form immediately for Action, ー they behave much beyond expectation, ー this exercise will be of great service if ever we land on the shore of our Enemies, which it seems they much fear as they have hall'd another Frigate in the Bay back of Mount Whoredom.2 ー Doctr Franklin and the other Gentlemen arrived here last Evening, I have not yet seen them. 3
1. Ford, comp. and ed., Webb Papers, I, 110, 111.
2. Here was training in all the essential elements of amphibious warfare which was destined to play such a major role in United States naval history.
3. The Committee from the Continental Congress to confer with Washington and representatives of the New England colonies.
