Author: James L. Douthat
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Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Author: James Tormey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625857950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The Virginia Navy, led by Commodore James Barron, raised more than fifty vessels to aid the fight against the British Empire. The ships kept open vital trade passages to the West Indies that allowed for goods and supplies to reach American shores despite English blockades. Barron defended his birthplace at the Battle of Hampton, suffered near-destruction at the hands of Benedict Arnold and supported the French navy in the decisive victory at Yorktown. Author James Tormey reveals these stories and more in a maritime adventure through the history of the Virginia Navy in the Revolutionary era.

Author: Charles Oscar Paullin
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: Robert Armistead Stewart
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Robert Armistead Stewart
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Author: James Tormey
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
ISBN: 9781540203380
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The Virginia Navy, led by Commodore James Barron, raised more than fifty vessels to aid the fight against the British Empire. The ships kept open vital trade passages to the West Indies that allowed for goods and supplies to reach American shores despite English blockades. Barron defended his birthplace at the Battle of Hampton, suffered near-destruction at the hands of Benedict Arnold and supported the French navy in the decisive victory at Yorktown. Author James Tormey reveals these stories and more in a maritime adventure through the history of the Virginia Navy in the Revolutionary era.

Author: Charles Brinson Cross
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh
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Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 760

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Author: Charles Eugene Claghorn
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Cloth reprint February 2003

Author: U. S. Military
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781980403845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This unique historical compilation provides comprehensive information on the role of naval power in the American Revolution, including the birth of the U.S. Navy, naval documents, a comprehensive history and timeline of Captain John Paul Jones, and a full list of the vessels of the Continental Navy, with numerous detailed descriptions. Contents: The Birth of the Navy of the United States * Naval History Bibliographies * Congress and the Continental Navy, 1775-1783: Chronology and Documents * Captain John Paul Jones * Vessels of the Continental Navy * Timeline for the Revolutionary War, the Schooner Dolphin, George Barber, and William Middleton * The Submarine Turtle On Friday, October 13, 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy. As an officer of the Continental Navy of the American Revolution, John Paul Jones helped establish the traditions of courage and professionalism that the Sailors of the United States Navy today proudly maintain. John Paul was born in a humble gardener's cottage in Kirkbean, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, went to sea as a youth, and was a merchant shipmaster by the age of twenty-one. Having taken up residence in Virginia, he volunteered early in the War of Independence to serve in his adopted country's infant navy and raised with his own hands the Continental ensign on board the flagship of the Navy's first fleet. He took the war to the enemy's homeland with daring raids along the British coast and the famous victory of the Bonhomme Richard over HMS Serapis. After the Bonhomme Richard began taking on water and fires broke out on board, the British commander asked Jones if he had struck his flag. Presented here is a collection of documents that concern the submersible Turtle, the world's first combat submarine. Named Turtle because its inventor, David Bushnell, believed the craft resembled "two upper tortoise shells of equal size, joined together," it saw action in the first days of the American Revolution. Designed in 1771-1775 while Bushnell was a Yale College undergraduate, it embodied the four basic requirements for a successful military submarine: the ability to submerge; the ability to maneuver under water; the ability to maintain an adequate air supply to support the operator of the craft; and the ability to carry out effective offensive operations against an enemy surface vessel.