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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... batteries , it may be inferred that the latter were between one third and one half the size of the former . The armaments of the two were alike in character , but those of the gondolas much lighter . Ameri- can accounts agree with ...
... batteries , it may be inferred that the latter were between one third and one half the size of the former . The armaments of the two were alike in character , but those of the gondolas much lighter . Ameri- can accounts agree with ...
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... batteries on each side of the anchorage , compelling Arnold to fall back to the broader lake . He then had soundings taken about Valcour Island , and between it and the western shore ; that being the position in which he intended to ...
... batteries on each side of the anchorage , compelling Arnold to fall back to the broader lake . He then had soundings taken about Valcour Island , and between it and the western shore ; that being the position in which he intended to ...
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... battery of eighteen 12 - pounders ; she was called the Inflexible , and was commanded by Lieutenant John Schanck . The two schooners , Maria , Lieutenant Starke , and Carleton , Lieutenant James Richard Dacres , carried respectively ...
... battery of eighteen 12 - pounders ; she was called the Inflexible , and was commanded by Lieutenant John Schanck . The two schooners , Maria , Lieutenant Starke , and Carleton , Lieutenant James Richard Dacres , carried respectively ...
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... battery of the Inflexible ; but a good look - out was kept , and the British squadron was sighted . from Valcour when it quitted the narrows . It may have been seen even earlier ; for Carleton had been informed , 1 Douglas thought that ...
... battery of the Inflexible ; but a good look - out was kept , and the British squadron was sighted . from Valcour when it quitted the narrows . It may have been seen even earlier ; for Carleton had been informed , 1 Douglas thought that ...
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... batteries , could result only in disaster . Concerted fire and successful escape were alike improbable ; and besides , escape , if feasible , was but throwing up the game . Better trust to a steady , well- ordered position , developing ...
... batteries , could result only in disaster . Concerted fire and successful escape were alike improbable ; and besides , escape , if feasible , was but throwing up the game . Better trust to a steady , well- ordered position , developing ...
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abreast action Admiralty ahead American anchored April army Arnold arrived astern attack Barbados batteries Brest British fleet broadsides Burgoyne Byron campaign Cap François Captain centre Channel chase Chesapeake Clinton close coast command Commander-in-Chief convoy Cornwallis course cruise d'Estaing d'Orvilliers division east enemy enemy's engaged fight fire flagship force Fort Mifflin French admiral French fleet French ships frigates galleys garrison Gibraltar Grasse Guadeloupe Guichen guns hauled Hood Hood's Howe's Hyde Parker July Keppel killed Lake Champlain land latter leeward line of battle Lord Martinique miles movement Narragansett Bay naval Navy Palliser Palliser's Parker passed port tack position put to sea Rear-Admiral retreat Rhode Island River Rodney Rodney's sail Sandy Hook Santa Lucia shore signal Sir Peter Parker southward squadron starboard tack station steering Suffren thousand tion Trincomalee troops vessels Vice-Admiral weather West Indies wind windward wounded wrote York