The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American IndependenceLittle, Brown,, 1913 - 280페이지 The author states in his introduction that his aim in issuing this volume is "to bring home to American readers the vast extent of the struggle to which our own declaration of independence was but the prelude...." |
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... mast was condemned . The injury to the frigates was im- material , owing to the garrison's neglecting them . The fight in Charleston Harbour , the first serious contest in which ships took part in this war , resembles generically the ...
... mast was condemned . The injury to the frigates was im- material , owing to the garrison's neglecting them . The fight in Charleston Harbour , the first serious contest in which ships took part in this war , resembles generically the ...
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... masts , and showing other signs of disability . The British vessel approached near enough to recognise them as French . They were d'Estaing's squadron , crippled by a very heavy gale , in which Howe's force had also suffered , though to ...
... masts , and showing other signs of disability . The British vessel approached near enough to recognise them as French . They were d'Estaing's squadron , crippled by a very heavy gale , in which Howe's force had also suffered , though to ...
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... mast , and sprung the mainmast , on the night of the 12th . The next day only two British ships of the line and three smaller vessels were in sight of their Admiral . When the 1 This account of the manœuvres of the two fleets is based ...
... mast , and sprung the mainmast , on the night of the 12th . The next day only two British ships of the line and three smaller vessels were in sight of their Admiral . When the 1 This account of the manœuvres of the two fleets is based ...
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... masts followed it overboard , and her tiller also was broken , rendering the rudder unserviceable . The Marseillais , 74 , lost her foremast and bowsprit . In the dispersal of the two fleets that followed the gale , each of these ...
... masts followed it overboard , and her tiller also was broken , rendering the rudder unserviceable . The Marseillais , 74 , lost her foremast and bowsprit . In the dispersal of the two fleets that followed the gale , each of these ...
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... mast . It falling nearly calm , the Bristol and Lion got out their boats and were towed by them to her support . The two other French ships of the line got up during the forenoon of the 21st , so that the action that afternoon , though ...
... mast . It falling nearly calm , the Bristol and Lion got out their boats and were towed by them to her support . The two other French ships of the line got up during the forenoon of the 21st , so that the action that afternoon , though ...
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abreast action ahead American anchored April army Arnold arrived astern attack Barbados batteries Brest broadsides Burgoyne Byron campaign Cap François Captain Carleton centre channel chase Chesapeake Clinton close coast command Commander-in-Chief convoy Cornwallis Crown Point d'Estaing d'Orvilliers Delaware division east enemy enemy's engaged fight fire flagship flotilla force Fort Mifflin French French admiral French fleet French ships frigates galleys garrison Gibraltar gondolas Grasse Guadeloupe Guichen guns hauled Hood Hood's Howe's Hudson Hyde Parker July Keppel killed Lake Champlain land latter leeward line of battle Lord Martinique miles movement Narragansett Bay naval Navy Parker passed port tack position put to sea rear Rear-Admiral retreat Rhode Island River Rodney Rodney's sail Sandy Hook Santa Lucia shore side signal Sir Peter Parker southward squadron starboard tack station steering Suffren thousand tion Trincomalee troops vessels weather West Indies wind windward wounded wrote York