The Battle of Rhode Island (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Charles Warren Lippitt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333610823 ISBN 13 : 9781333610821

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Battle of Rhode Island



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Présentation de l'éditeur

August 6, eleven of the French ships approached Newport, and under a heavy cannonade passed the town and its batteries. The only British frigate remaining in the harbor and a number of transports were burned in the greatest haste. In addition to the transports destroyed, the following English ships of war were sunk or burned to prevent their capture by the French; Lark, Orpheus, Juno, Flora, Cerberus, Falcon, and Kingfisher. The French Government allowed prize money at 600 livres per gun carried by all British vessels destroyed, and the total guns captured was 212. At that time a livre was worth two thirds of a dollar and the total in prize money therefore amounted to $84,800. It is unnecessary on this occasion to trace the landing of Gen. Sullivan sarmy on the island of Rhode Island and its subsequent operations to capture Newport; to estimate the propriety of the French effort to join battle with the English fleet off Point Judith; to examine the effects of the furious ingust gale that wrought such havoc with both fleets and armies; or to determine the necessity of refitting DE staing sfleet at Boston, and its abandonment of Sullivan and the Continental Army on Rhode I sland. As an illustration of the influence of sea-power in military operations it is most pertinent. The English holding control of Narragansett Bay, all efforts to capture Newport were futile and could only result in disaster. Rhode I slanders cannot ignore that lesson. The stern necessity of an adequate naval force to protect the extended national domain was never greater. Never before in history has such time been required to create the ships, guns and accessories, necessary for a modern navy, and to insirnct the personnel to successfully use modern engines of war on the w-orld soceans. To maintain peace be prepared for war. The absence of DE staing and the French fleet in the campaign on
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333610823
• ISBN 13: 9781333610821
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 21
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