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NAVIES AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783

by Robert Gardiner

Published by Chatham Publishing. 1st. 1996

Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Chatham Pictorial Histories series. The crucial contribution of seapower to the struggle for American independence forms the theme for this volume. Large format. Turquoise cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout.

Previous owner's small name label to front pastedown. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

ISBN: 1861760175
Stock no. 1819325

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Contents

  • INTRODUCTION 1763-1775
  • Colonial seafaring
  • PART I: THE WAR AT SEA AND IN THE DOCKYARDS 1775-1777
  • The Royal Dockyards
  • Boston and Bunker Hill, June 1775
  • The Campaign against Canada, May 1775-May 1776
  • A marine artist's sketchbook
  • The battle of Valcour Island, 11 October 1776
  • Lake warfare vessels
  • The first naval moves, fall 1775-spring 1776
  • George III and his navy
  • Parker and Clinton at Charleston, June 1776
  • Gunpowder - the sinews of war
  • Assault on New York: second phase, September-November 1776
  • Rhode Island: a textbook amphibious operation
  • The Continental Navy
  • Guerre de course
  • A forgotten incident in the trade war
  • The occupation of Philadelphia, summer 1777
  • The road to Saratoga, May-October 1777
  • PART II: AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES 1778-1783
  • The French Navy
  • D'Estaing in America: the French view
  • West Indies 1778 - St Lucia
  • Ships of the battlefleet
  • West Indies 1779 - Grenada
  • Florida and Central America 1779-1781
  • Penobscot fiasco, August 1779
  • Supplying the British Army in America
  • Siege of Savannah, October 1779
  • Capture of Charleston, 1780
  • West Indies, 1780
  • West Indies, 1781- St Eustatius
  • Struggle for the Chesapeake, 1781
  • Yorktown - the world turned upside down
  • Copper sheathing - the saviour of the Royal Navy
  • St Kitts, 1782
  • Battle of the Saintes, April 1782
  • Aftermath of battle
  • PART III: EUROPEAN WATERS 1778-1783
  • The battle of Ushant 1778
  • Naval administration
  • 'The Other Armada'
  • The Spanish Navy
  • Gibraltar besieged, summer 1779
  • The war on trade
  • John Paul Jones's cruise, 1779
  • The Moonlight Battle, 1780
  • Single-ship actions
  • Spanish successes
  • The Dutch Navy
  • Dogger Bank, August 1781
  • Gibraltar: the second relief and after, 1781-1782
  • Lord Howe takes over the Channel Fleet, 1782
  • The carrondade: a British secret weapon
  • The grand assault on Gibraltar, September 1782
  • Howe's relief of Gibraltar, October 1782
  • PART IV: EAST INDIES 1778-1783
  • Suffren and Hughes
  • Battles in the Eastern Seas
  • Postscript
  • Sources
  • Notes on Artists
  • Index

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