Recent excavations in Sussex County Delaware recovered a small button/sleeve link imitating a Spanish real dated 1744. These Spanish “coin” buttons have been recovered from the east coast of the U.S. from New England to Florida. One account suggests As tensions grew between the American colonists and Great Britain in the years immediately prior to the onset of the American War for Independence, these were worn by the American colonists as symbols of defiance against the policies of the British Crown and Parliament. Okay well maybe so but why are so many marked with the date of 1744?
Could it represent the naval battle (victory) of Toulon or Battle of Cape Sicie which took place on February 22, 1744in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Toulon France where a combined Franco-Spanish fleet fought off Britain's Mediterranean fleet?
Bill Liebeknecht, MA, RPA
Principal Investigator
Hunter Research, Inc.
Trenton, New Jersey 08608-1185
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