 We first captured Prescott after Montreal fell in 1775. He was returned to the British in exchange for a patriot officer, only to face the same plight two years later when he woke up to find Barton's men in his garrison at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Colonel Barton and his men departed Warwick Neck under the cover of darkness on the night of July 9th and proceeded silently across 10 miles of water in Narragansett Bay towards Portsmouth.