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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... Cap François , in Haïti , then a principal French station . The Spaniards continued on to Havana . At Cap François , de Guichen found urgent entreaties from the French Minister to the United States , and from Lafayette , to carry his ...
... Cap François , in Haïti , then a principal French station . The Spaniards continued on to Havana . At Cap François , de Guichen found urgent entreaties from the French Minister to the United States , and from Lafayette , to carry his ...
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... Cap François . Sealed orders , opened at sea , directed him to proceed to Cadiz , where he anchored on the 24th of October . His arrival raised the allied force there assembled to fifty - one sail of the line , besides the ninety - five ...
... Cap François . Sealed orders , opened at sea , directed him to proceed to Cadiz , where he anchored on the 24th of October . His arrival raised the allied force there assembled to fifty - one sail of the line , besides the ninety - five ...
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... French homeward merchant fleet from Martinique to Cap François and as the height of the hurricane season was near , Rodney reasoned that but a small French force would remain in Haïti , and consequently that Jamaica would not require ...
... French homeward merchant fleet from Martinique to Cap François and as the height of the hurricane season was near , Rodney reasoned that but a small French force would remain in Haïti , and consequently that Jamaica would not require ...
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... French convoy , on its way from Martinique to Cap François , protected by La Motte - Picquet's squadron of two 74's , one 64 , one 50 , and a frigate . The French merchant ships were or- dered to crowd sail for their port , while the ...
... French convoy , on its way from Martinique to Cap François , protected by La Motte - Picquet's squadron of two 74's , one 64 , one 50 , and a frigate . The French merchant ships were or- dered to crowd sail for their port , while the ...
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... Cap François . " These three new - comers were the Ruby , 64 , and two frigates , the Pomona , 28 , and Niger , 32. The comparison of forces , therefore , would be : French , two 74's , one 64 , one 50 , and one frigate , opposed to ...
... Cap François . " These three new - comers were the Ruby , 64 , and two frigates , the Pomona , 28 , and Niger , 32. The comparison of forces , therefore , would be : French , two 74's , one 64 , one 50 , and one frigate , opposed to ...
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abreast action Admiralty ahead American anchored army Arnold arrived astern attack Barbados Barrington batteries Brest broadside Burgoyne Byron campaign Captain Carleton centre channel chase Chesapeake Clinton close coast command Commander-in-Chief convoy Cornwallis Crown Point d'Estaing d'Orvilliers Delaware division east enemy enemy's engagement fight fire flagship flotilla force Fort Mifflin Fort Moultrie French admiral French fleet French ships frigates galleys garrison Gibraltar gondolas Guichen guns Hood Howe's Hudson July Keppel killed Lake Champlain land latter leeward line of battle Lord Martinique miles military morning movement Narragansett Bay naval Navy night operations Palliser Palliser's passed port tack position put to sea rear Rear-Admiral retreat Rhode Island River Rodney Rodney's sail Sandy Hook Santa Lucia schooners shore signal Sir Peter Parker southward starboard tack station Suffren superior thousand Ticonderoga tion troops Valcour vessels Washington weather West Indies wind windward wounded wrote York
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52 페이지 - General Howe's in a manner abandoning General Burgoyne, is so unaccountable a matter, that, till I am fully assured it is so, I cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me.
1 페이지 - Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
1 페이지 - On the head of Frederic is all the blood which was shed in a war which raged during many years and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden.
222 페이지 - I, my dear friend, have had the honour of commanding his Majesty's noble fleet on the 12th, I may, without the imputation of much vanity, say the flag of England should now have graced the sterns of upwards of twenty sail of the enemy's ships of the line.
134 페이지 - Sandwich for an hour and a half, bore away. " The superiority of the fire from the Sandwich, and the gallant behaviour of her officers and men, enabled her to sustain so unequal a combat, though, before attacked by them, she had beat three ships out of their line of battle, had entirely broke it, and was to leeward of the wake of the French admiral.
159 페이지 - The whole Face of the Country appears an entire ruin, and the most Beautiful Island in the World has the appearance of a Country laid waste by Fire, and Sword, and appears to the Imagination more Dreadful than it is possible for me to find Words to express.
11 페이지 - We now," he says in his despatch to Mr. Stephens, * thought it an enterprise worthy of an English ship of the line in our King and Country's sacred cause, and an effort due to the gallant defence of {Quebec, to make the attempt of pressing her by force of sail through the thick, broad, and closely connected fields of ice (as formidable as the Gulf of St. Lawrence ever exhibited), to which we saw no bounds.
136 페이지 - ... that glorious opportunity (perhaps never to be recovered) of terminating the naval contest in these seas. 'I cannot conclude without taking notice of my having, in justice to the...
7 페이지 - That the Americans were strong enough to impose the capitulation of Saratoga was due to the invaluable year of delay, secured to them in 1776 by their little navy on Lake Champlain, created by the indomitable energy, and handled with the indomitable courage of the traitor, Benedict Arnold.
223 페이지 - ... best-sailing ships or frigates to have shown lights at times, and by changing their course, have induced the British fleet to have followed them, while the main of their fleet, by hiding their lights, might have hauled their wind, and have been far to windward before daylight, and intercepted the captured ships, and the most crippled ships of the English...