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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... port tack , the French five or six miles in the rear of the British , with the wind variable at east . The same course was maintained throughout the night , the French gradually overhauling the British , and becoming visible at 3 A.M. ...
... port tack , the French five or six miles in the rear of the British , with the wind variable at east . The same course was maintained throughout the night , the French gradually overhauling the British , and becoming visible at 3 A.M. ...
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... port tack , 2 steering north - west ; the French dead to windward , in line ahead . The British were in bow - and ... port tack when she has the wind blowing on her port , or left side ; on the starboard tack , when the wind is on the ...
... port tack , 2 steering north - west ; the French dead to windward , in line ahead . The British were in bow - and ... port tack when she has the wind blowing on her port , or left side ; on the starboard tack , when the wind is on the ...
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... port tack , until all the French ( BB ) , were on the star- board , and at 10.15 , being nearly in their wake , he ordered his own ships to tack together ( dd ) , which would bring them into line ahead on the same tack as the French ...
... port tack , until all the French ( BB ) , were on the star- board , and at 10.15 , being nearly in their wake , he ordered his own ships to tack together ( dd ) , which would bring them into line ahead on the same tack as the French ...
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... tack , the van of the pursuing enemy , whose resolve to force battle could not be misunderstood , would overtake his rear ships , engaging as many of them as he might choose . By resuming the port tack , the heads of the columns would ...
... tack , the van of the pursuing enemy , whose resolve to force battle could not be misunderstood , would overtake his rear ships , engaging as many of them as he might choose . By resuming the port tack , the heads of the columns would ...
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... port tack ( Fig . 2 ) . None of the centre division suc- ceeded in joining the flagship at once . At 2.30 Palliser's ship , the Formidable ( R ) , on the starboard tack , passed the Victory to leeward , apparently the last of the fleet ...
... port tack ( Fig . 2 ) . None of the centre division suc- ceeded in joining the flagship at once . At 2.30 Palliser's ship , the Formidable ( R ) , on the starboard tack , passed the Victory to leeward , apparently the last of the fleet ...
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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