Ed Helms

I think he's just saying, like, ahoy, we're coming aboard.

I'm really impressed by this staircase that comes down off the side of a battleship like that.

This is a good question.

Yeah, it was a huge point of contention between the two navies.

Like, we've got stairs.

Yeah.

An escalator.

Exactly.

It's so interesting the things artists choose to render.

Dunmore's Flight to the Fowie.

Why did this particular thing?

I mean, if you're Leonardo da Vinci, painting The Last Supper feels like, yeah, that's a cool thing.

You want to capture that.

I don't know about this moment where he just happens to be getting on a boat.

Like, okay.

Anyway, Dunmore used the 24-cannon HMS Fowey as his base for two to three months, though it was reported that he moved from ship to ship in the Chesapeake Bay as he commanded small raids on Patriot-affiliated towns and plantations.

He and his...

Loyalist forces eventually settled on Gwyn's Island, about 30 miles northeast of Williamsburg.

By November 1775, however, even a private island couldn't solve all his problems.

Dunmore needed reinforcements, so he turned to the very people his opponents had been trying to control all along.