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Pritchard, James. "French Strategy and the American Revolution: a Reappraisal." Naval War College Review 1994 47(4): 83–108. ISSN 0028-1484; Schiff, Stacy. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (2005) Simms, Brendan. Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire. Penguin Books, 2008.
Following British withdrawal from Newport in late 1779, Rhode Island soon helped the roots of the Franco-American alliance flourish. When 6,000 French officers and soldiers of l’Expédition ...
Houston Volunteers was delivered on 28 October 1942 [10] and served in the Mediterranean during World War II. [11] On 11 November 1995, a memorial to Houston (CA-30) was dedicated near the spot where the "Houston Volunteers" were inducted. [12] The monument design features the ship’s bell, which was recovered by divers after the end of the ...
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce established formal diplomatic and commercial relations between the United States and France during the American Revolutionary War. It was signed on February 6, 1778 in Paris, together with its sister agreement, the Treaty of Alliance , and a separate, secret clause allowing Spain and other European nations to ...
Louis XVI, Forgotten Founding Father, with a survey of the Franco–American Alliance of the Revolutionary period (New York: Vantage Press, 1976); ISBN 978-0-533-02333-2. Corwin, Edward Samuel. French Policy and the American Alliance of 1778 (New York: B. Franklin, 1970).
The Royal Navy attempted to dispute this control in the key Battle of the Chesapeake on 5 September but Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves was defeated. Protected from the sea by French ships, Franco-American forces surrounded, besieged and forced the surrender of
Life of Stephen Decatur: A Commodore in the Navy of the United States. C. C. Little and J. Brown. Mooney, James L., ed. (1983). Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Vol. 6. Defense Dept., Navy, Naval History Division. ISBN 978-0-16-002030-8. Palmer, Samuel Putnam (1989). Stoddert's War: Naval Operations During the Quasi War with France ...
The action of 9 August 1780 was a naval engagement during the American Revolutionary War and a part of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783) in which a Spanish fleet, led by Admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova, along with a squadron of French ships, encountered a large British convoy. The Spanish and French force captured almost all the merchant ...