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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... divisions , attacking either that he might meet . On the 17th of June , two French frig- ates were sighted . In order that they might not report his force or his movements , the British Admiral sent two of his own frigates , with the ...
... divisions , attacking either that he might meet . On the 17th of June , two French frig- ates were sighted . In order that they might not report his force or his movements , the British Admiral sent two of his own frigates , with the ...
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... division . In short , he went , as was proper and incumbent on him in such critical circumstances , to take a great risk , in hope of a favourable chance offering . On the 9th , as before stated , he anchored off Point Judith , and ...
... division . In short , he went , as was proper and incumbent on him in such critical circumstances , to take a great risk , in hope of a favourable chance offering . On the 9th , as before stated , he anchored off Point Judith , and ...
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... division commanded by Sir Hugh Palliser - the right wing , as then heading - had dropped astern ( R ) ; and at 5.30 A.M. the signal was made to seven of its fastest sailers to chase to windward , to get farther to wind- ward by pressing ...
... division commanded by Sir Hugh Palliser - the right wing , as then heading - had dropped astern ( R ) ; and at 5.30 A.M. the signal was made to seven of its fastest sailers to chase to windward , to get farther to wind- ward by pressing ...
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... division , in killed and wounded , was heaviest , nearly equalling the aggregate of the two others.2 This was due to the morning signal to chase to windward , which brought these ships closer than their leaders . As soon as the British ...
... division , in killed and wounded , was heaviest , nearly equalling the aggregate of the two others.2 This was due to the morning signal to chase to windward , which brought these ships closer than their leaders . As soon as the British ...
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... division were on the weather bow of the Victory , to windward ( westward ) , but a little ahead , and standing like her after the French ; all on the port tack ( Fig . 2 ) . None of the centre division suc- ceeded in joining the ...
... division were on the weather bow of the Victory , to windward ( westward ) , but a little ahead , and standing like her after the French ; all on the port tack ( Fig . 2 ) . None of the centre division suc- ceeded in joining the ...
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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...