Governor-Commander Johannes de Graaff, who had only assumed his post in September and opened his colony to American ships, would welcome Dorea’s skipper, Captain Isaiah Robinson, who had arrived at the Dutch Caribbean island under orders of the Secret Committee to obtain munitions and military supplies. Robinson would leave behind a Philadelphia-printed copy of the Declaration of… Read More »SALUTE, ANSWERED – The first salute to the flag of the nascent United States was received in Oranje Bay by the Colonial Navy Brig-of-War Andrew Dorea (14 guns), an 11-gun return fired from Dutch-held Fort Oranje on the island of Sint Eustatius (Statia) in the Netherlands Antilles on 16 November 1776.
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