As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Palm Beach County residents wanting to visit a Revolutionary War battle site need only get in a boat and head a few miles offshore.
A historic naval battle, the last of the Revolution, took place there, though technically after the fighting had already ended.
There are no GPS coordinates for the March 10, 1783, encounter between the victorious USS Alliance and the defeated HMS Sybil. Such technology was more than a bicentennial celebration away…