Editing 1779 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 16]] &ndash; The [[Great Siege of Gibraltar]]  begins. This is an action by French and Spanish forces to wrest control of [[Gibraltar]] from the established British garrison. The garrison, led by [[George Augustus Eliott]] (later 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar), survives all attacks and a blockade of supplies.
* [[July 16]]
** [[American Revolutionary War]] &ndash; United States forces, led by General [[Anthony Wayne]], capture [[Stony Point, New York]] from British troops.
** [[Declaratory Rescript of the Illyrian Nation]] issued in order to regulate organization of [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] in [[Habsburg monarchy]].
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Tekle Giyorgis I]] begins the first of his five reigns as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Minisink]]: The Goshen Militia is destroyed by [[Joseph Brant]]'s forces.
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]] &ndash; American forces, led by Commodore [[Dudley Saltonstall]], launch the [[Penobscot Expedition]] in what is now [[Castine, Maine|Castine]], Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. history, until surpassed by the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941.
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Action of 17 August 1779]]: The 64-gun British warship [[HMS Ardent (1764)|HMS ''Ardent'']] is captured by France in the [[English Channel]] off of [[Plymouth]] after an ineffective attempt by the British captain to properly aim its cannons at the French frigare [[French frigate Junon (1778)|''Junon'']]
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Martín de Mayorga]], Captain-General of Guatemala, becomes the Spanish [[Viceroy of New Spain]] after the death of [[Antonio María de Bucareli]].
* [[September 14]]&ndash;[[September 15|15]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]] &ndash; [[Little Beard's Town]], a loyalist stronghold, is burnt by the [[Sullivan Expedition]].
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)|Battle of Baton Rouge]] &ndash; Spanish troops under [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] capture the city from the British.
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Flamborough Head]] &ndash; The American ship ''[[USS Bonhomme Richard (1765)|Bonhomme Richard]]'', commanded by [[John Paul Jones]], engages the British ship {{HMS|Serapis|1779|6}}.  The ''Bonhomme Richard'' sinks, but the Americans board the ''Serapis'' and other vessels, and are victorious.
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)|Samuel Huntington]] is elected as the seventh [[President of the Continental Congress]].<ref name=Harper>''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p166</ref>