The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence

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63 Admiral Lord Howe takes the Fleet from the Chesapeake to the Delaware 63
Surrender of Burgoyne and his Army 53 British Naval ... and makes with them a
defensive Alliance 68 A French Fleet sails for America under Comte d'Estaing .

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PAGE Admiral Keppel puts to Sea with the British Channel Fleet . . 61 First Guns
of the War with France 62 Extreme Length of Byron's Passage 62 He turns back
to Halifax 62 D'Estaing's slowness allows Howe to escape from Delaware Bay.

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ALLIED FLEETS INVADE THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. RODNEY DESTROYS TWO
SPANISH SQUADRONS AND RELIEVES GIBRALTAR FAOX Spain declares
War against Great Britain 116 Delays in Junction of French and Spanish Fleets ...

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Arbuthnot enters the Chesapeake 174 Cornwallis reaches Petersburg, Virginia,
May 20 . . .176 Under the directions of Sir Henry Clinton he evacuates
Portsmouth and concentrates his forces at Yorktown, August 22 . . . 175 The
French Fleet ...

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188 The French and Spanish Fleet under Admiral de Cordova again enters the
English Channel 188 Darby in inferior Force shut up in Tor Bay 188 The Allies
Decide not to attack him, but to turn their Efforts against British Commerce 189 ...

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INTRODUCTION	1

Consequent Necessity to the Americans of a Counterpoise to British	6

Preponderant effect of Control of the Water upon the Struggle	7

Arnold marches through Maine Wilderness and joins Montgomery	10

Ultimate Consequences from this Retardation	14

Arnolds Disposition of his Flotilla to receive Attack	20

British Appreciation of the Importance of the Action as shown	26

End of the Naval Story of the Lakes	27

Action between British and French Squadrons prior to his arrival	129

Action between them of April 17 1780 181	133

The Losses of the Respective Fleets	140

The Action of May 16 1780	144

He declines to Cooperate on the Continent with the Americans	148

The Year 1780 Uneventful in European seas	157

The large Booty and Defenceless state of St Eustatius	161

Criticism of the two Commanders	166

Description of Fort Moultrie 83	33

The Howes Admiral and General arrive in New York Bay	39

Washington withdraws his Army from the Brooklyn side	43

He recovers most of the State of New Jersey	49

THE DECISIVE PERIOD OF THE WAR SURREN	50

General Results of the Campaign	56

Admiral Keppel puts to Sea with the British Channel Fleet	61

DEstaing decides not to attempt Passage of the Bar and puts to Sea	67

Sustained Rapidity of his action at New York	71

Howe gives up his Command and returns to England	80

The Battle of Ushant	82

A Drawn Battle The respective Losses	91

CHAPTER VI	98

Admiral Barringtons Seizure of Santa Lucia	101

Byron Reaches Barbados and takes over Command from Harrington	105

Criticism of the two CommandersinChief	110

They enter the Channel Alarm in England	117

And Destroys a Second Spanish Squadron of Eleven SailoftheLine	123

The Advantage rests with the French but they return to Newport	175

Hoods Criticism of Gravess Conduct	181

Capture of British Convoy with the spoils of St Enstatius	188

CHAPTER XII	195

Unsuccessful Attempt by de Grasse to shake Hoods position	206

British Pursuit continues	211

An Accident that night induces de Grasse to bear down and	212

A Shift of Wind enables the British to Break the French Order	217

Hoods Opinion shared by Sir Charles Douglas Rodneys Chiefof	222

Cruises first in North Sea and in Channel 228 The Allied Fleets in much superior force take Position in the Chops	229

Sir Edward Hughes sent to India with a Fleet 1779	235

Suffren reaches Mauritius and the French Squadron sails for India	239

Second Engagement April 12	242

Fourth Engagement between Hughes and Suffren September 3	248

The British Besiege Cuddalore	252

Glossary of Nautical and Naval Terms used in this Book	257

Index	267

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abreast Admiralty ahead American anchored April army Arnold arrived astern attack Barbados batteries Brest British fleet broadsides Byron cable Cap Francois Cape Captain centre Channel Channel fleet chase Chesapeake Clinton close action close-hauled coast command Commander-in-Chief convoy Cornwallis course cruise Cuddalore d'Estaing d'Orvilliers division east enemy enemy's engaged fight fire flagship force form line French admiral French fleet French ships frigates Gibraltar Grasse Guadeloupe Guichen guns hauled head Hood Hood's Howe's Hughes Hyde Parker Island July Keppel killed Lake Champlain land latter leeward line of battle Lord manoeuvre Martinique masts miles movement Narragansett Bay naval Navy night Parker passed port tack position put to sea Rear-Admiral Rodney Rodney's sail Sandy Hook Santa Lucia side signal Sir Peter Parker spars squadron starboard tack station steering Suffren superior tion Trincomalee troops vessels Vice-Admiral weather West Indies wind windward wounded wrote York

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저자	Alfred Thayer Mahan
발행인	Little, Brown, and Company, 1913
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디지털화된 날짜:	2008년 9월 18일
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