Many minor, major, and sometimes unheard events followed the ones located above through the course of eight years. These events included The Battle of the Rice Boats in 1776, when British warships arrived in the Savannah River. This was the first crisis caused in Savannah. Other events that occurred were the Three Invasions of Florida where Button Gwinnet, the so called “commander in chief” of the Georgia militia decided upon an invasion of Florida which failed, and resulted in a duel with one of his comrades, which was supposed to decide who was to blame, but instead left both wounded, and Gwinnet dead. Finally, one of a few other events that occurred was the Siege of Savannah in 1779 where George Washington, knowing how Georgia had become