CHAPTER VIII
RODNEY AND DE GUICHEN'S NAVAL CAMPAIGN IN WEST INDIES. DE GUICHEN RETURNS TO EUROPE AND RODNEY GOES TO NEW YORK. LORD CORNWALLIS IN THE CAROLINAS. TWO NAVAL ACTIONS OF COMMODORE CORNWALLIS. RODNEY RETURNS TO WEST INDIES
1780
Rodney's Force upon arrival in West Indies [128]
Action between British and French Squadrons prior to his arrival [129]
Rodney and de Guichen put to sea [130]
Action between them of April 17, 1780 [131]
Cause of Failure of Rodney's Attack [133]
His Disappointment in his Subordinates [135]
His Expression of his Feelings [135]
Discussion of the Incidents and Principles involved [137]
The Losses of the Respective Fleets [140]
They Continue to Cruise [141]
The Action of May 15, 1780 [142]
That of May 19, 1780 [144]
The Results Indecisive [144]
Contrary Personal Effect produced upon the two Admirals by the encounters [145]
De Guichen asks to be Relieved [145]
Rodney's Chary Approval of his Subordinates in these two instances [145]
Suspicion and Distrust rife in the British Navy at this period [146]
Twelve Spanish Sail-of-the-Line, with Ten Thousand Troops, Arrive at Guadeloupe [147]
They refuse Coöperation with de Guichen in the Windward Islands [147]
De Guichen Accompanies them to Haïti with his Fleet [147]
He declines to Coöperate on the Continent with the Americans, and sails for Europe [148]
Rodney Arranges for the protection of the Homeward West India Trade, and then proceeds to New York [149]
Effect of his coming [150]
The Year 1780 one of great Discouragement to Americans [151]
Summary of the Operations in the Carolinas and Virginia, 1780, which led to Lord Cornwallis's Surrender in 1781 [151]
Two Naval Actions sustained by Commodore Cornwallis against superior French forces, 1780 [153]
The Year 1780 Uneventful in European seas [157]
Capture of a great British Convoy [157]
The Armed Neutrality of the Baltic Powers [158]
The Accession of Holland to this followed by a Declaration of War by Great Britain [158]
The French Government withdraws all its Ships of War from before Gibraltar [158]