Anna
Anna
ANNA. Part of the Charleston Expedition in 1780, the British transport Anna (or Ann) was crippled by storms that began when the convoy was two days out of New York. She was taken in tow by the Renown (50 guns), but the cable broke and the Anna eventually drifted clear across the Atlantic to Cornwall. She was carrying Captain George Hanger's company of 120 Hessian and Anspach jägers, Captain John Althouse's sharpshooter company of the New York Volunteers, and (possibly) some thirty of Captain Johann Ewald's Hessian jägers who had been distributed among other ships when their transport, the Pan, was damaged before leaving New York.
SEE ALSO Charleston Expedition of Clinton in 1780; Hanger, George.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ewald, Johann. Diary of the American Campaign: A Hessian Journal. Translated and edited by Joseph P. Tustin. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979.
Syrett, David. The Royal Navy in American Waters, 1775–1783. Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press, 1989.
revised by Harold E. Selesky