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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... sails for India Suffren finds Johnstone Anchored in Porto Praya , and attacks at 236 once • · 237 The immediate Result Indecisive , but the Cape of Good Hope is saved by Suffren arriving first Suffren reaches Mauritius , and the French ...
... sails for India Suffren finds Johnstone Anchored in Porto Praya , and attacks at 236 once • · 237 The immediate Result Indecisive , but the Cape of Good Hope is saved by Suffren arriving first Suffren reaches Mauritius , and the French ...
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... sail , through the thick , broad , and closely connected fields of ice , to which we saw no bounds towards the western part of our horizon . Before night ( when blowing a snow - storm , we brought - to , or rather stopped ) , we had ...
... sail , through the thick , broad , and closely connected fields of ice , to which we saw no bounds towards the western part of our horizon . Before night ( when blowing a snow - storm , we brought - to , or rather stopped ) , we had ...
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... sailing ship , strictly so called , of force as yet unknown in inland waters . Such a ship , aided as she was by two consorts of somewhat similar character , dominated the Lake as soon as she was afloat , reversing all the conditions ...
... sailing ship , strictly so called , of force as yet unknown in inland waters . Such a ship , aided as she was by two consorts of somewhat similar character , dominated the Lake as soon as she was afloat , reversing all the conditions ...
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... sailing vessels having a fair wind , by a heterogeneous force like his own , of unequal speeds and batteries , could result only in disaster . Concerted fire and successful escape were alike improbable ; and besides , escape , if ...
... sailing vessels having a fair wind , by a heterogeneous force like his own , of unequal speeds and batteries , could result only in disaster . Concerted fire and successful escape were alike improbable ; and besides , escape , if ...
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... sail seems to have been impossible . Two artillery boats were sent to her assistance , " which towed her off through a very thick fire , until out of farther reach , much to the honour of Mr. John Curling and Mr. Patrick Carnegy ...
... sail seems to have been impossible . Two artillery boats were sent to her assistance , " which towed her off through a very thick fire , until out of farther reach , much to the honour of Mr. John Curling and Mr. Patrick Carnegy ...
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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