The Navy of the American Revolution : Its Administration, Its Policy And Its Achievements
The Navy of the American Revolution : Its Administration, Its Policy And Its Achievements
Paullin, Charles Oscar, 1868 Or 9-1944
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General Cadrigal com- manded the troops. The expedition left Havana on April 22, and on May 8 the Ba- hamas surrendered without firing a shot. Gillon not very modestly attributed the suc- cess of the enterprise to the ''great atten- tion which the captains and officers of the American vessels of war paid in conveying such a fleet through so difficult and so un- frequented a passage, with a beating wind all the way, whereby we disappointed any plans the enemy might have formed of at- 1. New York... Historical Society Collec- tions, Deane Papers, IV, 450, 468, 478, 519; Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence. IV, 546- 47, note. Navy of the American Revolution 439 tacking us in our way through the gulph of Florida/^ The island surrendered, not to the joint American and Spanish forces, but to the Spaniards alone. ^ It was reported that the Spaniards and Gillon captured three hundred troops and ninety sail of ves- sels.^ On May 28th the ''South Carolina'' ar- rived in Philadelphia, where she was refit- ting during the summer and fall of 1782.
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