However, they failed to achieve a surprise attack as Hopkins directed his captains to make an opposed landing of all his 234 of Marines, and some fifty seamen on the island of New Providence, to assault the British Fort Montagu hoping to seize supplies and provisions.
However, they failed to achieve a surprise attack as Hopkins directed his captains to make an opposed landing of all his Marines and some seamen on the island of New Providence to assault the British Fort Montagu hoping to seize supplies and provisions.