CHAPTER XIV
THE NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE EAST INDIES, 1778-1783. THE CAREER OF THE BAILLI DE SUFFREN
Isolation characteristic of Military and Naval Operations in India [234]
Occurrences in 1778 [234]
Sir Edward Hughes sent to India with a Fleet, 1779 [235]
The Years prior to 1781 Uneventful [235]
A British Squadron under Commodore Johnstone sent in 1781 to seize Cape of Good Hope [236]
A Week Later, a French Squadron under Suffren sails for India [236]
Suffren finds Johnstone Anchored in Porto Praya, and attacks at once [237]
The immediate Result Indecisive, but the Cape of Good Hope is saved by Suffren arriving first [238]
Suffren reaches Mauritius, and the French Squadron sails for India under Comte d'Orves [239]
D'Orves dies, leaving Suffren in Command [240]
Trincomalee, in Ceylon, captured by Hughes [240]
First Engagement between Hughes and Suffren, February 17, 1782 [240]
Second Engagement, April 12 [242]
Third Engagement, July 6 [244]
Suffren captures Trincomalee [247]
Hughes arrives, but too late to save the place [247]
Fourth Engagement between Hughes and Suffren, September 3 [248]
Having lost Trincomalee, Hughes on the change of monsoon is compelled to go to Bombay [251]
Reinforced there by Bickerton [251]
Suffren winters in Sumatra, but regains Trincomalee before Hughes returns. Also receives Reinforcements [251]
The British Besiege Cuddalore [252]
Suffren Relieves the Place [253]
Fifth Engagement between Hughes and Suffren, June 20, 1783 [253]
Comparison between Hughes and Suffren [254]
News of the Peace being received, June 29, Hostilities in India cease [255]
Glossary of Nautical and Naval Terms used in this Book [257]
Index [267]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Remains of the Revenge, one of Benedict Arnold's Schooners on Lake Champlain in 1776. Now in Fort Ticonderoga. [Frontispiece]
Major-General Philip Schuyler [12]
Edward Pellew, afterwards Admiral, Lord Exmouth [12]
Benedict Arnold [27]
Attack on Fort Moultrie in 1776 [33]
Richard, Earl Howe [78]
Charles Henri, Comte d'Estaing [78]
Admiral, the Honourable Samuel Barrington [104]
Comte de Guichen [144]
George Brydges, Lord Rodney [144]
François-Joseph-Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis de Tilly [204]
Admiral, Lord Hood [204]
Sir Edward Hughes, K.B. [254]
Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez [254]
LIST OF MAPS
Lake Champlain and Connected Waters [8]
New York and New Jersey: to illustrate Operations of 1776, 1777, and 1778 [40]
Narragansett Bay [70]
Leeward Islands (West Indies) Station [99]
Island of Santa Lucia [101]
Island of Martinique [164]
Peninsula of India, and Ceylon [234]
North Atlantic Ocean. General Map to illustrate Operations in the War of American Independence [280]
LIST OF BATTLE-PLANS
D'Orvilliers and Keppel, off Ushant, July 27, 1778
Figure 1 [86]
Figures 2 and 3 [90]
D'Estaing and Byron, July 6, 1779 [106]
Rodney and De Guichen, April 17, 1780, Figures 1 and 2 [132]
Rodney and De Guichen, May 15, 1780 [143]
Cornwallis and De Ternay, June 20, 1780 [156]
Arbuthnot and Des Touches, March 16, 1781 [172]
Graves and De Grasse, September 5, 1781 [180]
Hood and De Grasse, January 25, 1782, Figures 1 and 2 [201]
Hood and De Grasse, January 26, 1782, Figure 3 [203]
Rodney and De Grasse, April 9 and 12, 1782
Figures 1 and 2 [210]
Figure 3 [212]
Figures 4 and 5 [215]
Figure 6 [218]
Johnstone and Suffren, Porto Praya, April 16, 1781 [237]
Hughes and Suffren, February 17, 1782 [240]
Hughes and Suffren, April 12, 1782 [243]
Hughes and Suffren, July 6, 1782 [243]
Hughes and Suffren, September 3, 1782 [249]