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  • Radcliff's Winter Campaign
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  • At Pittman's Ferry British pickets actually saw the Atlanteans approach and reported it to the British captain at the outpost. Amazingly the Atlanteans still managed to take the outpost by surprise, as the angry captain admitted that he assumed no one would dare conduct a campaign in winter. Radcliff gained enough confidence to march toward the Atlantic, and managed to briefly recapture Weymouth before being shelled by Royal Navy warships and being compelled to evacuate.
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Date
  • 1776
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Result
  • Several short victories for Atlantis
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Place
  • Atlantis
Conflict
  • Victor Radcliff's Winter Campaign
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  • At Pittman's Ferry British pickets actually saw the Atlanteans approach and reported it to the British captain at the outpost. Amazingly the Atlanteans still managed to take the outpost by surprise, as the angry captain admitted that he assumed no one would dare conduct a campaign in winter. Radcliff gained enough confidence to march toward the Atlantic, and managed to briefly recapture Weymouth before being shelled by Royal Navy warships and being compelled to evacuate. The Winter Campaign did much to sustain and even improve Atlantean morale as the war entered its second year. It helped that numerous European military officers such as Baron von Steuben drilled the Atlanteans and turned them into a semi-European force. And while it assured the Europeans that Atlantis was a force to be reckoned with, it didn't come close to firing up Great Britain's natural enemy, France, as General William Howe's invasion of French Atlantis did the following summer.