The Londons of the British Fleet How They Faced the Enemy On the Day of Battle
The Londons of the British Fleet How They Faced the Enemy On the Day of Battle
Edward Fraser
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Not until the evening of the 31st did they cross the bar ; and then they counted only five ships of the line — the London^ two seventy-fours, and two small sixty-fours — with the Adamant^ a. Fifty-gun ship. One seventy-four, the Robust^ and one sixty-four, the Prudent^ had to be left repair- ing. Two other fifty-gun ships of Graves' fleet and a forty-four-gun ship were absent at sea. With Hood's fourteen ships that made up a force of nine- teen of the line. The united force was under sail by ni...ne on the night of the 31st. Graves' plan of action was to overtake, or cut off, the ships from Rhode Island before they could join with the new-comers from the West Indies. He shaped his course accordingly, anticipating to fall in with them off the entrance to the Chesapeake. He arrived there, getting no intelligence of the enemy meanwhile, on the morning of the 5th of September ; and as he stood in he 3o6 THE LONDONS OF THE BRITISH FLEET discovered the anchorage crowded with vessels under the French flag.
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