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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... chase began , and could not get into close action that day . By this time , seventeen of the twenty gunboats had come up , and , after silencing the Royal Savage , pulled up to within point - blank range of the American flotilla . " The ...
... chase began , and could not get into close action that day . By this time , seventeen of the twenty gunboats had come up , and , after silencing the Royal Savage , pulled up to within point - blank range of the American flotilla . " The ...
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... Chase , " which , by permitting much individual freedom of movement , facilitated the progress of the whole body . At daylight , the division commanded by Sir Hugh Palliser the right wing , as then heading had dropped astern ( R ) ; and ...
... Chase , " which , by permitting much individual freedom of movement , facilitated the progress of the whole body . At daylight , the division commanded by Sir Hugh Palliser the right wing , as then heading had dropped astern ( R ) ; and ...
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... chase that his enemy was avoiding action , he judged correctly that he should force it , even at some risk . It was not the time for a drill - master , nor a parade . Besides , thanks to the morning signal for the leewardly ships to chase ...
... chase that his enemy was avoiding action , he judged correctly that he should force it , even at some risk . It was not the time for a drill - master , nor a parade . Besides , thanks to the morning signal for the leewardly ships to chase ...
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... chase to windward , which brought these ships closer than their leaders . As soon as the British van , ten ships , had passed the French rear , its commander , Vice- Admiral Sir Robert Harland , anticipating Keppel's wishes , signalled ...
... chase to windward , which brought these ships closer than their leaders . As soon as the British van , ten ships , had passed the French rear , its commander , Vice- Admiral Sir Robert Harland , anticipating Keppel's wishes , signalled ...
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... chase , had increased through the hurry of the manoeuvres succeeding the squall , and culminated in the conditions just described . It was an inevitable result of a military exigency confronted by a fleet only recently equipped . The ...
... chase , had increased through the hurry of the manoeuvres succeeding the squall , and culminated in the conditions just described . It was an inevitable result of a military exigency confronted by a fleet only recently equipped . The ...
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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