According to American colonial reports, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Lee" id="mwaw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ezra Lee">Ezra Lee</a> makes the world's first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine" id="mwbA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Submarine">submarine</a> attack in the <i id="mwbQ"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(submersible)" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Turtle (submersible)">Turtle</a></i>, attempting to attach a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_bomb_(explosive)" id="mwbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Time bomb (explosive)">time bomb</a> to the hull of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Eagle_(1774)" id="mwcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="HMS Eagle (1774)">HMS <i id="mwcQ">Eagle</i></a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Harbor" id="mwcg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New York Harbor">New York Harbor</a> (no British records of this attack exist).