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Tables of Contents for Navies and the American Revolution 1775-1783
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
INTRODUCTION 1763-1775
9
3
Colonial seafaring
12
3
PART I: THE WAR AT SEA AND IN THE DOCKYARDS 1775-1777
15
62
The Royal Dockyards
21
3
Boston and Bunker Hill, June 1775
24
4
The Campaign against Canada, May 1775-May 1776
28
2
A Marine artist's sketchbook
30
2
The battle of Valcour Island, 11 October 1776
32
2
Lake warfare vessels
34
3
The first naval moves, fall 1775--spring 1776
37
2
George III and his navy
39
3
Parker and Clinton at Charleston, June 1776
42
4
Gunpowder--the sinews of war
46
3
Assault on New York: first phase, June-August 1776
49
5
Colonial warfare vessels
54
3
Assault on New York: second phase, September-November 1776
57
5
Rhode Island: a textbook amphibious operation
62
2
The Continental Navy
64
2
Guerre de course
66
4
A forgotten incident in the trade war
70
2
The occupation of Philadelphia, summer 1777
72
3
The road to Saratoga, May--October 1777
75
2
PART II: AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES 1778-1783
77
56
The French Navy
82
2
D'Estaing in America: the French view
84
4
West Indies 1778--St Lucia
88
4
Ships of the battlefleet
92
3
West Indies 1779--Grenada
95
3
Florida and Central America 1779-1781
98
2
Penobscot fiasco, August 1779
100
2
Supplying the British army in America
102
2
Siege of Savannah, October 1779
104
3
Capture of Charleston, 1780
107
1
West Indies, 1780
108
3
West Indies 1781--St Eustatius
111
3
Struggle for the Chesapeake, 1781
114
5
Yorktown--the world turned upside down
119
3
Copper sheathing--the saviour of the Royal Navy
122
2
St Kitts, 1782
124
2
Battle of the Saintes, April 1782
126
3
Aftermath of battle
129
4
PART III: EUROPEAN WATERS 1778-1783
133
47
The battle of Ushant 1778
137
3
Naval administration
140
2
`The Other Armada'
142
2
The Spanish Navy
144
2
Gibraltar besieged, summer 1779
146
3
The war on trade
149
3
John Paul Jones's cruise, 1779
152
3
The Moonlight Battle, 1780
155
2
Single-ship actions
157
3
Spanish successes
160
2
The Dutch Navy
162
2
Dogger Bank, August 1781
164
3
Gibraltar: the second relief and after, 1781-1782
167
3
Lord Howe takes over the Channel Fleet, 1782
170
2
The carronade: a British secret weapon
172
2
The grand assault on Gibraltar, September 1782
174
4
Howe's relief of Gibraltar, October 1782
178
2
PART IV: EAST INDIES 1778-1783
180
6
Suffren and Hughes
181
2
Battles in the Eastern Seas
183
3
POSTSCRIPT
186
1
SOURCES
187
1
NOTES ON ARTISTS
188
3
INDEX
191