Navies Of The American Revolution

Author : David Syrett
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570032387
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War written by David Syrett and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spain and the Netherlands. In this operational history of a period that proved to be a turning point for one of the world's great naval powers, David Syrett presents a saga of battles, blockades, great fleet cruises and, above all, failures and lost opportunities. He explains that the British government severely underestimated the Americans' maritime strength and how that error led to devastating consequences. The seemingly invincible navy failed to muster even one decisive victory during the extensive naval conflict.

Author : Charles Oscar Paullin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Navy of the American Revolution written by Charles Oscar Paullin and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248836
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution written by Sam Willis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans—to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, of course, off the eastern seaboard of America. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in so many different theaters. In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history. This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the rise and fall of the British Empire.

Author : Robert Gardiner
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navies and the American Revolution 1775-1783 written by Robert Gardiner and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crucial contribution of seapower to the struggle for American independence forms the theme for this volume, drawing on published prints, maps and illustrated journals of the time to achieve a remarkable impression of the maritime aspects of the war, in all its variety and drama. But besides the campaigns, battles and sieges, the book also illustrates many significant background aspects of the war, in the form of thematic inserts on such subjects as the ship types, the weapons and the organisation involved. The result is not just a visually exciting collection of contemporary images, many previously unpublished, but a valuable contribution to the understanding of how the American Revolution was seen at the time.

Author : United States. Naval History Division
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160724954
Total Pages : 1395 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution: American theatre: Jan. 1, 1778-Mar. 31, 1778. European theater: Jan. 1, 1778-Mar. 31, 1778 written by United States. Naval History Division and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1964 with total page 1395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.

Author : Antony Preston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navies of the American Revolution written by Antony Preston and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses all of the navies that fought in the American Revolution.

Author : George C Daughan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0786731931
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If By Sea written by George C Daughan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown. Revere and his companions rowed with muffled oars to avoid capture by the British warships closely guarding the harbor. As they paddled silently, Revere's neighbor was flashing two lanterns from the belfry of Old North Church, signaling patriots in Charlestown that the redcoats were crossing the Charles River in longboats. In every major Revolutionary battle thereafter the sea would play a vital, if historically neglected, role. When the American colonies took up arms against Great Britain, they were confronting the greatest sea-power of the age. And it was during the War of Independence that the American Navy was born. But following the British naval model proved crushingly expensive, and the Founding Fathers fought viciously for decades over whether or not the fledgling republic truly needed a deep-water fleet. The debate ended only when the Federal Navy proved indispensable during the War of 1812. Drawing on decades of prodigious research, historian George C. Daughan chronicles the embattled origins of the U.S. Navy. From the bloody and gunpowder-drenched battles fought by American sailors on lakes and high seas to the fierce rhetorical combat waged by the Founders in Congress, If By Sea charts the course by which the Navy became a vital and celebrated American institution.

Author : James L. Nelson
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071502246
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benedict Arnold's Navy written by James L. Nelson and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of one man’s devotion to the American cause In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold’s treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between British forces and a swift end to the American rebellion. Benedict Arnold’s Navy is the dramatic chronicle of that desperate battle and of the extraordinary events that occurred on the American Revolution’s critical northern front. Written with captivating narrative vitality, this landmark book shows how Benedict Arnold’s fearless leadership against staggering odds in a northern wilderness secured for America the independence that he would later try to betray. Praise for James L. Nelson: "James Nelson is a master both of his period and of the English language." --Patrick O'Brian, author of Master and Commander "James L. Nelson tells this story with clarity and literary skill and with such ease and order that the reader feels he is attending a dissertation on history given by a consummate lecturer." --Ron Berthel, Associated Press, on Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, winner of the American Library Association’s 2004 Award for Best Military History "It is, by far, the best Civil War novel I’ve read; reeking of battle, duty, heroism and tragedy. It’s a triumph of imagination and good, taut writing . . . " --Bernard Cornwell on Glory in the Name, winner of the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award

Author : Myron J. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navies in the American Revolution written by Myron J. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on operational, administrative and biographical data concerning the sea forces. Works on genealogy and exploration are excluded. The following types of materials are represented: books and monographs; scholarly papers; periodical, magazine or journal articles; some documents; important general works; doctoral and masters degree papers; and contemporary poetry pertaining to the navies, naval battles or heroes. It does not include fiction, children's works, newspaper articles or book reviews.

Author : Antony Preston
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 : 9780850521917
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Navies of the American Revolution written by Antony Preston and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: