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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... forming a consecutive , though not con- tinuous , water line of communications from the St. Lawrence to New York . The strength of Canada against attack by land lay in its remoteness , in the wilderness to be traversed before it was ...
... forming a consecutive , though not con- tinuous , water line of communications from the St. Lawrence to New York . The strength of Canada against attack by land lay in its remoteness , in the wilderness to be traversed before it was ...
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... formed by the lake and the inlet from Lake George , Crown Point on a promontory twelve miles lower down.1 They were positions of recognised importance , and had been ad- vanced posts of the British in previous wars . A schooner being ...
... formed by the lake and the inlet from Lake George , Crown Point on a promontory twelve miles lower down.1 They were positions of recognised importance , and had been ad- vanced posts of the British in previous wars . A schooner being ...
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... formation of the anchored vessels is described by the British officers as a half - moon . When the British discovered the enemy , they hauled up for them . Arnold ordered one of his schooners , the Royal Savage , and the four galleys ...
... formation of the anchored vessels is described by the British officers as a half - moon . When the British discovered the enemy , they hauled up for them . Arnold ordered one of his schooners , the Royal Savage , and the four galleys ...
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... formed in line above the enemy , and conse- quently they must have surrendered this morning , or given us battle on our own terms . The Indians and light troops are abreast with the fleet ; they cannot , therefore , escape by land ...
... formed in line above the enemy , and conse- quently they must have surrendered this morning , or given us battle on our own terms . The Indians and light troops are abreast with the fleet ; they cannot , therefore , escape by land ...
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... formed the right flank of the defence , which was continued thence to the westward by a line of seven ships ... formation was that each ship might bring her broadside to bear east , and yet fire clear of those to the east of her . In ...
... formed the right flank of the defence , which was continued thence to the westward by a line of seven ships ... formation was that each ship might bring her broadside to bear east , and yet fire clear of those to the east of her . In ...
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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