The Last Naval Battle of the American Revolution

FreeRepublic.com ^ | March 10, 2007 | NonValueAdded

[ProtectOurFreedom]

For a wonderful story of a naval battle that occurred 18 months earlier off the mouth of Chesapeake Bay (the Battle of the Virginia Capes), read "Decision at the Chesapeake" by Harold A. Larrabee. The French victory over the British prevented the Brits from relieving Cornwallis who was invested at Yorktown and led to the surrender. Time Magazine has a good summary of the book here.

[NonValueAdded]

The parallels of Capt. John Barry to the fictional Horatio Hornblower had me double checking to see if Forester used Barry as the model - he did not, but easily could have.

[NonValueAdded]

Thanks for adding the information and the links.

[LS]

USN, kicking British butt in the Revolution.

It's interesting: the first steam powered boat, John Fitch 1795. First profitable steam line, Fulton's Clermont, 1807. The British had the first steam-powered ironclads, but they were armored rafts, not really ships. Our Monitor class was far better. By 1906, the British had their last lead ever, when they launched the "Dreadnought" battleship, but we already had TWO "Dreadnought" equivalent vessels a-building, and had essentially caught England---the biggest naval power in the world in 100 years from scratch.

[SunkenCiv]

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