harbor. to take hisleave fleet from narragansett bay up to boston. protected harbor, there will not be any reddish threat. to refit them before he comes back. this is where miscommunication reaches its apex. sullivan goes ballistic over the estang is leaving. sullivan publicly does the one thing you are not going to do in the 18th century. he questions their honor. he outright calls them cowards. destang will not stand for that. he leaves with no intention of coming back. the alliance is at stake. one of the first of the battle of rhode island on august 29 is it is the first opportunity for military cooperation between the french and americans in the war, but it is almost the last. it becomes so serious that lafayette has to ride from newport up to boston to try to convince destang to come back. sullivan makes the decision to move forward with his attack plans on newport. on august 28 and 29 to move forward into attacking newport. the british positions are too strong. we have about 10,000 american troops. there is a small canadian unit. there is also

harbor is out there. tot he wants to do is leave take his fleet from narragansett up and around and to boston. technically farther. there's not going to be any british threat there. and he must refit them. this is where the miscommunication between the two really reaches its apex. sullivan loses it. sullivan completely goes ballistic and he has these plans to go ahead and attack newport. theullivan does, publicly, one thing you're not going to do in the 18th century. he questions their honor. he outright calls them cowards. so he leaves -- and sullivan entireruins the franco-american alliance. that is one of the things that is really at stake. one of the third -- first things about the battle of rhode island is it is the first opportunity for military cooperation between the french and the americans in the war, but it's on most of the last. it is so serious that lafayette has two ride from newport to ride fromhas to newport to boston to convince the french to come back. sullivan goes to attack newport, but the british positions are too strong. we have 10,000 american troops. there is a small c

harbor. what he wants to do is go and leave and take his fleet from narragansett bay and out and around to boston. there won't be british threat there and he wants to refit them before he comes back to support them. that's where the miscommunication between the two reaches its apex. sullivan is -- sullivan loses it. he just completely goes ballistic over the fact they're going to lose sullivan and his attack on newport. sullivan publicly does the one thing you're not doing in the 18th century, he questions their honor. in fact he outright calls them cowards. dustang won't stand for that and has no intention of coming back. sullivan wants to rethink the entire french-american a lie aps and is one of the things really at stake. one the first of the battle of rhode island on august 29 is that it's the first opportunity for military cooperation between the french and the americans in the war but it's almost the last. and has become so serious lafayette has to ride from newport up boston to try to defense dustang to come back. sullivan makes the decision he's going to move forward with his attack plan