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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... d'Orvilliers availed himself of the conditions to press to windward , and in the morning was found to bear north - west from his oppo- nent . Their relative positions satisfied both admirals for the moment ; for Keppel found himself ...
... d'Orvilliers availed himself of the conditions to press to windward , and in the morning was found to bear north - west from his oppo- nent . Their relative positions satisfied both admirals for the moment ; for Keppel found himself ...
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Alfred Thayer Mahan. pressed purpose of compelling d'Orvilliers to action in their support , and it was believed by the British that they were forced to return to Brest , to avoid being cut off . They certainly quitted their fleet ...
Alfred Thayer Mahan. pressed purpose of compelling d'Orvilliers to action in their support , and it was believed by the British that they were forced to return to Brest , to avoid being cut off . They certainly quitted their fleet ...
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... d'Orvilliers could afford , as things stood . Just after he had fairly committed himself to the manœuvre , the wind hauled to the southward two points , 1 from south - west to south - south - west , which favoured the British , allowing ...
... d'Orvilliers could afford , as things stood . Just after he had fairly committed himself to the manœuvre , the wind hauled to the southward two points , 1 from south - west to south - south - west , which favoured the British , allowing ...
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... d'Orvilliers had said , it was hard to avoid an enemy resolute to fight . The leading three French vessels 2 ( e ) hauled their wind , in obedi- ence to the admiral's signal to form the line of battle , which means a close - hauled line ...
... d'Orvilliers had said , it was hard to avoid an enemy resolute to fight . The leading three French vessels 2 ( e ) hauled their wind , in obedi- ence to the admiral's signal to form the line of battle , which means a close - hauled line ...
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... But , after all , it seems difficult wholly to remedy the disadvantage of a policy essentially defensive ; and d'Orvilliers ' next order , though well conceived , was resultless . At 1 P.M.1 WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 89.
... But , after all , it seems difficult wholly to remedy the disadvantage of a policy essentially defensive ; and d'Orvilliers ' next order , though well conceived , was resultless . At 1 P.M.1 WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 89.
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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