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 in that quarter , as well as for Rear - Admiral Rowley to leave the convoy ; and as not more than fourteen or fifteen of the enemy's ships appeared to be in line , the signal was made for the ships to engage , and form as they ...
... chase in that quarter , as well as for Rear - Admiral Rowley to leave the convoy ; and as not more than fourteen or fifteen of the enemy's ships appeared to be in line , the signal was made for the ships to engage , and form as they ...
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... chase was continued , and the signal made for close engagement . ' " 1 The remainder of the ships stood down on the port tack , as the first three had done , and wore in the wake of the latter , whom they followed ; but before reaching ...
... chase was continued , and the signal made for close engagement . ' " 1 The remainder of the ships stood down on the port tack , as the first three had done , and wore in the wake of the latter , whom they followed ; but before reaching ...
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... chase , unless prepared to sacrifice their slower ships . If twenty - four ships 1 Pierre A. de Suffren de Saint Tropez , a Bailli of the Order of Knights of Malta . Born , 1726. Present at two naval actions before he was twenty ...
... chase , unless prepared to sacrifice their slower ships . If twenty - four ships 1 Pierre A. de Suffren de Saint Tropez , a Bailli of the Order of Knights of Malta . Born , 1726. Present at two naval actions before he was twenty ...
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... Chase was at once given , and the whole were taken in a few hours . Seven were ships of war , one 64 and six frigates ; the remainder merchant vessels , laden with naval stores and provisions for the Spanish fleet at Cadiz . The ...
... Chase was at once given , and the whole were taken in a few hours . Seven were ships of war , one 64 and six frigates ; the remainder merchant vessels , laden with naval stores and provisions for the Spanish fleet at Cadiz . The ...
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... Chase , " the ships to en- gage as they came up ; " to leeward , " so as to get between the enemy and his port , and " in rotation , " by which probably was meant that the leading British vessel should attack the sternmost of the ...
... Chase , " the ships to en- gage as they came up ; " to leeward , " so as to get between the enemy and his port , and " in rotation , " by which probably was meant that the leading British vessel should attack the sternmost of 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