<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" id="mwQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: Ships of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Navy" id="mwQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Continental Navy">Continental Navy</a> fail in their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Block_Island" id="mwQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Block Island">attempt to capture</a> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" id="mwRA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_boat" id="mwRQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dispatch boat">dispatch boat</a>.