Affair at Little Egg Harbor

Little Egg Harbor massacre
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Date October 15, 1778 Location near Little Egg Harbor, present-day Tuckerton, New Jersey 39°32′56″N 74°22′30″W / 39.549°N 74.375°W / 39.549; -74.375 Result British victory
Belligerents
United States	Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Kazimierz Pułaski	Patrick Ferguson
Strength
50	250
Casualties and losses
45 killed 5 captured	3 killed 3 wounded

The Affair at Little Egg Harbor took place on October 15, 1778, in southern New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War. American Loyalists killed 45 Patriot men, bayonetting them as they slept. The massacre took place about one week after the Battle of Chestnut Neck, a British raid aimed at suppressing privateers who used the area as a base to harass and seize British ships and their cargoes.