Rodney Reaches West Indies Inconclusive Actions with French French Squadron England and Holland at War Rodney Joined by Hood Reaches Newport Capture of French Newport Squadron's Attempt to Reach Chesapeake Checked by St.
Massachusetts Prepares an Expedition to Recapture It The Bagaduce All-out Assault Besieged American Naval and Military Commanders Disagree American Squadron Routed by Inferior Force British Relief Squadron Sails Types of Ordnance Carronades The Naval Gun Accuracy Aiming and Firing Ability to Absorb Punishment Effects of Gunfire Danger of Fire Ammunition Shortage of Cannon in America CastColonial Foundries Unable to Meet Requirements ing and Boring Cannon Gunpowderħ69 Gangs Discipline Watches Daily Routine Lucia, Fails to Relieve Island to Boston Takes Grenada Besieges Savannah, Georgia Is Beaten Off Sails for France Weather Gauge Leeward Position gaging on Opposite Tacksįighting Instructions Fighting Canvas En-ĭ'£staing and 'Disappointment War Between England and Franceĭelaware Fails to Attack at New York Reaches Newport Abandons Siege Goes Sails for St. List of Vessels Pennsylvania State Navy Massachusetts Navy of South Carolina Georgia, North Carolina, Rhode Island, andĩ9 Navy Navy of Virginia Pay of Seamen Navies of Maryland, Navy of Connecticut New HampshireĪdds Jones to Name Early Career at Sea Joins Continental Navy ComJohn Paul Cruises in Providence and Alfred Cruise in Ranger missioned Captain Attacks WhiteCommands Bonhomme Richard Takes Drake Cruise of Jones's Squadron haven Subsequent Career Action with Serapis Out in Colonial Ports Manning of Privateers Hindersįort Mercer Unsuccessfully Attacked American Squadron Defenses of the Delaware Mercer Falls Bombardment and Destruction of Fort Mifflin Loss of Augusta and Merlin Battle of the Kegs and American Ships Are Burned Twisting the jQpn'sTail Continental Cruisers in European Waters Lambert Wickes's Squadron Custavus ersey Prison Hulks Treatment of Prisoners Launching and Fitting Out Dry Rot and Ship WormsĪrnold Builds a Fleet The Importance of Lake Champlain as British Invasion Route Escape and Ultimate Squadron Arnold's Strategy Battle of Valcour Island Destruction of American Squadron Effects of Arnold's Campaign on the WarĮxperiments with Underwater Mine David Bushnell Bushnell's Subsequent Career on British SquadronĦ5 Letters of Commissions Issued by Congress Types of Privateers Recruiting for Naval Vessels Lists of American Privateers of Some American Privateersmen Spars Rope Walks and Sail Fothering a Leak Royal Navy Hampered by "EstablishBomb Vessels Fire Ships Ships' The Naval Committee Its Recommendations WashA Squadron Assembled at Philadelphia Esek Hopkins in Command Cruise to Bahamas Fort Nassau Taken, with Cannon and Powder Hopkins's Disgrace Encounter with H.B.M.S. 1, 1775 Capacity of Colonial Shipyards Size of Colonial Merchant Marine Readjustments after Seven Years War Strength of Royal Navy Allowed to Decline, Not Equal to Task of Policing America and Defending Empire British Naval Vessels on American Station, )an. (chronology of the ^Njayal ''War of the 'InvolutionĪttack on Captain Moore of Margaretta Moore Killed and Margaretta Captured
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