narrowness of his escape, [63], [64];
evacuates Narragansett Bay, 1779, [115];
operations of, in South Carolina, and capture of Charleston, [151];
leaves Cornwallis in command in Carolina, and returns to New York, [152];
sends detachments to Virginia, for diversion in favor of Cornwallis, 1781, [153], [169];
serious difference of opinion between, and Cornwallis, [115], [175];
orders of, to Cornwallis, which result in position at Yorktown, 1781, [175].
Commerce, effects upon, through inadequate naval preparation, [59]-61, [117], [126], [158];
table of losses of British, [61] (note).
Convoys, effect of, upon naval action, strategic or tactical, [105], [106], [109], [122], [126], [130], [148], [155]-157, [158], [166], [176], [188], [189], [193], [199], [206]-209, [227]-229, [229]-231, [235], [236]-238, [240], [246].