At Pittman's Ferry British pickets actually saw the Atlanteans approach and reported it to the British captain at the outpost. Amazingly the Atlanteans still managed to take the outpost by surprise, as the angry captain admitted that he assumed no one would dare conduct a campaign in winter. Radcliff gained enough confidence to march toward the Atlantic, and managed to briefly recapture Weymouth before being shelled by Royal Navy warships and being compelled to evacuate.