Hood's Point

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Hood's Point

HOOD'S POINT. James River, 3 January 1781. An American battery fired at Arnold's expedition when it anchored near Jamestown late in the evening. Simcoe landed with 130 of the Queen's Rangers reinforced by the flank companies of the Eightieth Regiment, moved about a mile to the fort, and found the garrison had abandoned it.

SEE ALSO Virginia, Military Operations in.