 In 1779 the British attacked New Haven Harbor and came ashore in West Haven.Thomas Painter, a militiaman watching for British ships from atop Savin Rock, is depicted on the city seal.The main commercial street, Campbell Avenue, is named for British Adjutant William Campbell, who stopped to help a minister who had been wounded, saving him from being killed, supposedly saying "We make war on soldiers, not civilians" Campbell himself was killed later that day (July 5, 1779) on Allingtown Hill.