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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... wind failed him when still thirty miles from St. John's , another fortified post on the lower narrows , where the lake gradually tapers down to the Richelieu River , its outlet to the St. Lawrence . Unable to advance otherwise , Arnold ...
... wind failed him when still thirty miles from St. John's , another fortified post on the lower narrows , where the lake gradually tapers down to the Richelieu River , its outlet to the St. Lawrence . Unable to advance otherwise , Arnold ...
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... wind , keeping along Grand Island , upon which their attention doubtless was fastened by the intelligence which they had received ; but it was a singular negligence thus to run to lee- ward with a fair wind , without thorough scouting ...
... wind , keeping along Grand Island , upon which their attention doubtless was fastened by the intelligence which they had received ; but it was a singular negligence thus to run to lee- ward with a fair wind , without thorough scouting ...
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... wind , which generally blows fresh at this season , our craft will make good weather , while theirs cannot keep the Lake . " It is apparent from this , written three weeks before the battle , that he then was not expecting a force ...
... wind , which generally blows fresh at this season , our craft will make good weather , while theirs cannot keep the Lake . " It is apparent from this , written three weeks before the battle , that he then was not expecting a force ...
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... wind moderated , and at daybreak the American flotilla was twenty- eight miles from Crown Point , fourteen from Valcour , - having still five miles ' start . Later , however , by Arnold's re- port , " the wind again breezed up to the ...
... wind moderated , and at daybreak the American flotilla was twenty- eight miles from Crown Point , fourteen from Valcour , - having still five miles ' start . Later , however , by Arnold's re- port , " the wind again breezed up to the ...
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... wind was needed to bring ships into action . After sounding and buoying the bar , the transports and frigates crossed on the 7th and anchored inside ; but as it was necessary to re- move some of the Bristol's guns , she could not follow ...
... wind was needed to bring ships into action . After sounding and buoying the bar , the transports and frigates crossed on the 7th and anchored inside ; but as it was necessary to re- move some of the Bristol's guns , she could not follow ...
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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