Category: History - American
The history of the Continental navy covers a period of ten years, extending from 1775 to 1785. During this time the Continental Congress made many experiments in naval legislation and devised several organs of naval administration. The first of these organs, with whose origin...
The history of the Continental navy covers a period of ten years, extending from 1775 to 1785. During this time the Continental Congress made many experiments in naval legislati...
19. CHAPTER IIThe first armed vessels that sailed under Continental pay and control were those that composed the little fleet fitted out by Washington in the ports of Massachusetts in the fal...
20. CHAPTER IIIIn the years immediately preceding the Revolution the four New England colonies were largely engaged in shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, and commerce. The forests of Maine and Ne...
21. CHAPTER IVThere was a painful lack of system about the business methods of the Naval Department of the Revolution. Then, official routine was not settled as at present. Usage had had no o...
22. CHAPTER VThe nineteenth century worked its marvels on sea as well as on land. The progress of invention, the discovery of new sources of wealth and power in nature and in man, and the de...
23. CHAPTER VIMany duties fell to the Marine Committee and its fleet which were not of a purely military character. The Committee was obliged to employ some of its vessels in keeping open the...
24. CHAPTER VIIIt is speaking tritely, although accurately, to say that our present executive departments at Washington did not spring into perfect being in 1789 like panoplied Minerva from th...
25. part IV, I, 47-56; Boston Gazette, July 24, 1780; Gomer Williams,26. CHAPTER VIIIOn the question of the proper organization of the executive departments, the leaders of the Revolution were divided into two factions. Moved by their love of liberty, their dist...
27. CHAPTER IXOn the outbreak of the war between the Colonies and the mother-country, Congress turned with true political insight to France for aid. The self-interest of no other country in E...
28. CHAPTER XIn 1777 the work of the Naval Office at Paris was greater and more varied than during any other year. Naval vessels were both built and purchased. Continental ships, and merchan...
29. CHAPTER XIWith the exception of New Jersey and Delaware, each of the thirteen original states during the Revolution owned one or more armed vessels. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvan...
30. Chapter I:“And if any Person belonging to either of such Vessels shall be convicted of Theft, Drunkenness, profane Cursing, or Swearing, disregarding the Sabbath, or using the Name of God...
31. CHAPTER XIIAn introductory word about the government of Connecticut during the Revolution may not be amiss. Speaking generally, the power of legislation was vested in the Governor, Council...
32. CHAPTER XIIIThe two objects of Pennsylvania’s naval enterprises were the defence of Philadelphia and the protection in Delaware river and bay of the outward and inward bound trade of the st...
33. CHAPTER XIVIn July, 1775, Virginia began to raise and officer an army of more than one thousand men. By fall Lord Dunmore, the Provincial Governor of Virginia, who in June had retreated to...
34. CHAPTER XVSouth Carolina employed her first armed vessels in obtaining a supply of gunpowder, the need of which article was so keenly felt throughout the colonies during the first years o...
35. CHAPTER XVINaval administration in Maryland was vested in the Committee of Safety until March 22, 1777, when it passed to the Governor and Council, the executive under the first state cons...
36. CHAPTER XVIIRhode Island was the first colony to undertake a defence by means of armed vessels. Her initial legislation preceded that of the Continental Congress by almost four months. Duri...
37. Chapter XXXI, Volume III, and Chapter I, Volume IV, areimportant sources for the engagements of Continental vessels with vessels of the Royal Navy. Scientific treatment. Some sources have been used which are not accessible in Americ...
38. Chapter XVI, Privateers from Dunkirk, and Chapter XVII,39. Chapter I gives a good account of the Continental prize40. Volume I contains a valuable letter of Jay’s relating toExcellent catalogue and digest of the Jones manuscripts in the Library of Congress. Dr. Lincoln’s purpose is to enlarge his calendar so as to include the additional Jones materi...
41. Volume I. New London, 1890-94.42. Volume I contains Morris’s description of an ideal secretary43. Volume VI contains a history of the Revolutionary navy by E.44. Volume IV contains an account of the naval battle at the45. Volume V contains the legislation of Massachusetts withAre printed in Force’s American Archives. The chief sources for the early civil history of the Massachusetts navy are the Journals of the Third Provincial Convention, Journals o...
46. Volume I gives the best account of the Penobscot47. Volume II contains a description of Bushnell’s submarine48. Volume X contains Washington’s account of Bushnell’s49. Volume I. New London, 1890-94.50. Volume II has a reference to the voyage of the “Spy” to51. Chapter I, Predecessor of the Supreme Court, gives an52. Volume I of the second series contains the minutes of the53. Volume I is valuable for Virginia’s “Potomac river fleet.Not complete files. Those in the Library of the Virginia Historical Society may be supplemented by those in the Virginia State Library. Of some value for the cruises of the Virg...
54. Volume II gives some information in respect to the Georgia55. Volume II contains naval information of considerable value.56. Volume II contains a few items of naval information.1. Joseph Nicholson. 2. John Manly. 3. Hector McNeil. 4. Dudley Saltonstall. 5. Nicholas Biddle. 6. Thomas Thompson. 7. John Barry. 8. Thomas Read. 9. Thomas Grennel. 10. Charle...