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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
in's Canada Correspondence, passim. all along the frontiers of the west and south Lord George Germain to General Prevost, Whitehall, 13 March, 1779. to Florida, were to be hounded on to spread Chap. IV.} 1778. dismay and to murder. No active operations at the north were expected, except the devastation of towns on the sea, and raids of the allied savages on the border. The king, under his sign-manual, ordered Clinton to detach five thousand men for the conquest of the French island, St. Lucia. Secret instructions from the king to Sir H. Clinton, 21 March, 1778. As the commissioners stepped on shore to receive June. the submission of the colonies, The particular and elaborate orders and instructions to the commissioners from the king, 12 April, 1778; and Germain to the commissioners of the same date. and on their submission to pardon their rebellion, they found to their extreme surprise and chagrin Commissioners to Lord George Germain, Philadelphia, 15 June, 1778,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 13: (search)
nch windward islands, in a single day wrested from Great Britain the strongly fortified island of Dominica; but d'estaing, with a greatly increased fleet and a land force of nine thousand men, came Chap. XIII.} 1779. in sight of the island of St. Lucia just as its last French flag had been struck to a corps of fifteen hundred British troops. A landing for its recovery was repulsed, with a loss to d'estaing of nearly fifteen hundred men. Early in January, 1779, re-enforcements under Admiral Byron transferred maritime superiority to the British; and d'estaing for six months sheltered his fleet within the bay of Port Royal. At the end June. of June, Byron having left St. Lucia to convoy a company of British merchant ships through the passages, d'estaing detached a force against St. Vincent, which, with the aid of the oppressed and enslaved Caribs, its native inhabitants, was easily taken. This is the only instance in the war where insurgent slaves acted efficiently. At the sam
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 27: (search)
to France the naval ascendency in the West Indies. St. Eustatius was recaptured, and generously restored to the United Provinces. St. Christopher, Nevis, and Montserrat Feb. 19. were successively taken. On the nineteenth of February, 1782, Rodney reappeared at Barbadoes with a re-enforcement of twelve sail, and in the next week he effected a junction with the squadron of Hood to the leeward of Antigua. To cope with his great adversary, de Grasse, who was closely watched by Rodney from St. Lucia, must unite with the Span- April 8. ish squadron. For that purpose, on the eighth of April he turned his fleet out of Fort Royal in Martinique; and with only the advantage of a few hours over the British he ran for Hispaniola. On the ninth, 9. a partial engagement took place near the island of Dominique. At daylight on the twelfth, Rodney by 12. skilful manoeuvres drew near the French in the expanse of waters that lies between the islands of Guadeloupe, the Saintes, and Marie Galante