Battle of Gloucester
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The Battle of Gloucester may refer to:
- Siege of GloucesterSiege of GloucesterThe Siege of Gloucester was an engagement in the First English Civil War. It took place between August 3 and September 5, 1643, between the defending Parliamentarian garrison of Gloucester and the besieging army of King Charles I. The siege ended with the arrival of a relieving Parliamentarian army...
, a siege in England in 1643 during the First English Civil War - Battle of Gloucester (1775)Battle of Gloucester (1775)The Battle of Gloucester was a skirmish fought early in the American Revolutionary War at Gloucester, Massachusetts on August 8 or 9, 1775. Royal Navy Captain John Linzee, commanding the sloop-of-war HMS Falcon, spotted two schooners that were returning from the West Indies. After capturing one...
, a land-sea engagement in the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War - Battle of Gloucester (1777), a minor engagement in Gloucester, New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War
- Siege of YorktownSiege of YorktownThe Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis...
, which included a minor engagement near Gloucester Point, Virginia late in the American Revolutionary War - Battle of Gloucester Point (1861)Battle of Gloucester Point (1861)The Battle of Gloucester Point, Virginia was an inconclusive exchange of cannon fire on May 7, 1861 between a shore battery on the York River manned by Virginia forces and the Union gunboat USS Yankee, three weeks after the start of the American Civil War...
, a minor engagement between a Union gunboat and a Virginia (Confederate) shore battery at the beginning of the American Civil War - Battle of Cape GloucesterBattle of Cape GloucesterThe Battle of Cape Gloucester was a battle in the Pacific theater of World War II, which took place between late December 1943 and April 1944, on the island of New Britain, part of the Territory of New Guinea....
, fought in and around Cape Gloucester on the New Guinean island of New Britain in the Pacific theater of the Second World War