CHAPTER IX
NAVAL CAMPAIGN IN WEST INDIES IN 1781. CAPTURE OF ST. EUSTATIUS BY RODNEY. DE GRASSE ARRIVES IN PLACE OF DE GUICHEN. TOBAGO SURRENDERS TO DE GRASSE
Effects of the Great Hurricanes of 1780 in West Indies [159]
Rodney's Diminished Force. Arrival of Sir Samuel Hood with reinforcements [160]
Rodney receives Orders to seize Dutch Possessions in Caribbean [160]
Capture of St. Eustatius, St. Martin, and Saba [161]
The large Booty and Defenceless state of St. Eustatius [161]
Effect of these Conditions upon Rodney [161]
Hood detached to cruise before Martinique [162]
De Grasse arrives there with Twenty Ships-of-the-Line [163]
Indecisive Action between de Grasse and Hood [164]
Criticism of the two Commanders [166]
Junction of Rodney and Hood [166]
De Grasse attempts Santa Lucia, and Fails [167]
He captures Tobago [168]
He decides to take his Meet to the American Continent [168]