Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART 1: THE ESTABLISHED ROYAL NAVY

Chapter 1 Royal Navy Dockyards

Chapter 2 Administering the Royal Navy

Chapter 3 Coping with Rebellion

PART 2: FORMING A NEW NAVY

Chapter 4 Colonial Maritime Tradition

Chapter 5 Congress Forms the Continental Navy

Chapter 6 Rebel Privateers Offer Profit

PART 3: CANADA PRESERVED BY THE ROYAL NAVY

Chapter 7 Congress wants Quebec

Chapter 8 Creating Squadrons to Control Lake Champlain

Chapter 9 The Battle of Lake Champlain and the Capture of Ticonderoga

Chapter 10 Canada Sustained by Control of Lake Champlain

PART 4: BLOCKADING THE COAST AND ENVELOPING NEW YORK

Chapter 11 The Royal Navy Blockade

Chapter 12 Amphibious Operations take New York

Chapter 13 Clinton and Wallace Sail the Hudson

PART 5: RAIDING THE BRITISH ISLES

Chapter 14 American Commissioners and Captains in Europe

Chapter 15 A Scotsman Desires Command

Chapter 16 Whitehaven Attacked

Chapter 17 The British Isles React

Chapter 18 Whitehaven Defends Itself

Chapter 19 Jones Loses Command

Chapter 20 Jones Sails Again

PART 6: THE ROYAL NAVY SUCCEEDS IN THE SOUTH

Chapter 21 A French Fleet and a Southern Strategy

Chapter 22 Charleston Besieged

Chapter 23 British Initiatives in the Chesapeake

PART 7: NEW ENGLAND AND NOVA SCOTIA IN CONFLICT

Chapter 24 Massachusetts’ Hubris

Chapter 25 Halifax’s Crucial Careening Yard

Chapter 26 Defending Nova Scotia

PART 8: THE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR

Chapter 27 The Spanish Obsession with Gibraltar

Chapter 28 The DefendersSucceed

PART 9: THE CONTINENTAL NAVY IN TROUBLE

Chapter 29 Loyalist Privateers Expand the War

Chapter 30 Demise of the Continental Navy

Chapter 31 French Assistance

PART 10: FINAL CONFRONTATIONS

Chapter 32 Rodney Humiliates France

Chapter 33 Maryland and Virginia Humiliated

Chapter 34 Evacuation Becomes Migration

Affirmations

Notes