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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... Rhode Island was of such importance , " says the narrator already quoted , " and the fate of so large a portion of the British army as formed the garrison was of such infinite consequence to the general cause , that it was imagined the ...
... Rhode Island was of such importance , " says the narrator already quoted , " and the fate of so large a portion of the British army as formed the garrison was of such infinite consequence to the general cause , that it was imagined the ...
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... Rhode Island , he now made a wide circle with the fleet by a succession of changes of course at 8 A.M. to south , then to south - west and west , until finally , at 1.30 P.M. , the ships were steering north - west ; always in line of ...
... Rhode Island , he now made a wide circle with the fleet by a succession of changes of course at 8 A.M. to south , then to south - west and west , until finally , at 1.30 P.M. , the ships were steering north - west ; always in line of ...
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... Rhode Island ; but it was only to tell him that in his own opinion , and in that of a council of war , the condition of the squadron neces- sitated going to Boston to refit . Whatever may be thought of the propriety of this decision ...
... Rhode Island ; but it was only to tell him that in his own opinion , and in that of a council of war , the condition of the squadron neces- sitated going to Boston to refit . Whatever may be thought of the propriety of this decision ...
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... Rhode Island accords the indisputable triumph in this campaign to Howe , an honour he must share , and doubtless would have shared gladly , with his sup- porters in general . That his fleet , for the most part two years from home , in a ...
... Rhode Island accords the indisputable triumph in this campaign to Howe , an honour he must share , and doubtless would have shared gladly , with his sup- porters in general . That his fleet , for the most part two years from home , in a ...
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... Rhode Island , with the entire British army , which was divided between those two stations and dependent upon the sea , is an achievement unsurpassed in the annals of naval defensive warfare . It may be added that his accomplishment is ...
... Rhode Island , with the entire British army , which was divided between those two stations and dependent upon the sea , is an achievement unsurpassed in the annals of naval defensive warfare . It may be added that his accomplishment is ...
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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