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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... broadsides , " wrote Douglas , " silenced their whole line . " One fresh ship , with scantling for sea - going , and a con- centrated battery , has an unquestioned advantage over a 1 Douglas's letter . The Isis and the Blonde were ...
... broadsides , " wrote Douglas , " silenced their whole line . " One fresh ship , with scantling for sea - going , and a con- centrated battery , has an unquestioned advantage over a 1 Douglas's letter . The Isis and the Blonde were ...
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... broadsides struck together , the merlons shook so that Moultrie feared they would come - bodily in ; but they withstood , and the small 34 MAJOR OPERATIONS OF THE NAVIES IN THE The Battle of Fort Moultrie Failure of the Attack British ...
... broadsides struck together , the merlons shook so that Moultrie feared they would come - bodily in ; but they withstood , and the small 34 MAJOR OPERATIONS OF THE NAVIES IN THE The Battle of Fort Moultrie Failure of the Attack British ...
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... broadsides . facing east . If the enemy , which had no bow fire , survived his punishment , and succeeded in advancing till abreast the British line , it was necessary only to keep fast the cables and let go the springs ; the ships ...
... broadsides . facing east . If the enemy , which had no bow fire , survived his punishment , and succeeded in advancing till abreast the British line , it was necessary only to keep fast the cables and let go the springs ; the ships ...
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... broadsides , and so escaped to the northward . The Monmouth was equally maltreated ; in fact , she had not been able to tack to the southward with the fleet . Continuing north ( a ' ) , she be- came now much separated . D'Estaing ...
... broadsides , and so escaped to the northward . The Monmouth was equally maltreated ; in fact , she had not been able to tack to the southward with the fleet . Continuing north ( a ' ) , she be- came now much separated . D'Estaing ...
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... broadsides , came into close action ( S2 ) with the second vessel astern from the French Admiral , the Actionnaire , 64. The latter was soon beat out of the line by the superiority of the Sand- wich's battery , and the same lot befell ...
... broadsides , came into close action ( S2 ) with the second vessel astern from the French Admiral , the Actionnaire , 64. The latter was soon beat out of the line by the superiority of the Sand- wich's battery , and the same lot befell ...
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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