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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... shore of the Narrows , extends to the east - north - east a hundred and ten miles , enclosing between itself and the continent a broad sheet of water called Long Island Sound , that reaches nearly to Narragan- sett Bay . The latter ...
... shore of the Narrows , extends to the east - north - east a hundred and ten miles , enclosing between itself and the continent a broad sheet of water called Long Island Sound , that reaches nearly to Narragan- sett Bay . The latter ...
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... shores of Man- hattan Island , and a line of redoubts extended across it , fol- lowing the course of a small stream which then partly divided it , a mile from the southern end . Governor's Island was also occupied as an outpost . Of ...
... shores of Man- hattan Island , and a line of redoubts extended across it , fol- lowing the course of a small stream which then partly divided it , a mile from the southern end . Governor's Island was also occupied as an outpost . Of ...
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... shore of Long Island opposite the city was much higher than that of Manhattan . If this height were seized , the city , and all below it , became untenable . Here , therefore , was the key of the position and the chief station for the ...
... shore of Long Island opposite the city was much higher than that of Manhattan . If this height were seized , the city , and all below it , became untenable . Here , therefore , was the key of the position and the chief station for the ...
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... shore was Fort Lee . A garrison of four thousand men occupied New York . After amusing him- self with some further peace negotiations , Howe determined to possess the city . As a diversion from the main effort , and to cover the ...
... shore was Fort Lee . A garrison of four thousand men occupied New York . After amusing him- self with some further peace negotiations , Howe determined to possess the city . As a diversion from the main effort , and to cover the ...
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... shore of the island and joined the main body on the Har- lem ; favored again , apparently , in this flank movement a mile from the enemy's front , by Howe's inertness , and fond- ness for a good meal , to which a shrewd American woman ...
... shore of the island and joined the main body on the Har- lem ; favored again , apparently , in this flank movement a mile from the enemy's front , by Howe's inertness , and fond- ness for a good meal , to which a shrewd American woman ...
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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...