The ships are still more than twenty…
October 1776 CE
When the wind finally changes, the British have its advantage first.
They close once again, opening fire on Congress and Washington, which are in the rear of the American fleet.
Arnold first decides to attempt grounding the slower gunboats at Split Rock, eighteen miles (twenty-nine kilometers) short of Crown Point.
Washington, however, is too badly damaged and too slow to make it, and she is forced to strike her colors and surrender; one hundred and ten men men are taken prisoner.
Arnold now leads many of the remaining smaller craft into a small bay on the Vermont shore now named Arnold's Bay two two miles south of Buttonmold Bay, where the waters are too shallow for the larger British vessels to follow.
These boats are run aground, stripped, and set on fire, with their flags still flying.
Arnold, the last to land, personally torches his flagship Congress.
The surviving ships' crews, numbering about two hundred, now made their way overland to ...