occupied by French squadron and troops, 1780, [149], [150], [155]-157;
Rodney neglects to attack, [150];
French division in, watched by British from Gardiner's Bay, [151], [170];
but starts, 1781, for Chesapeake Bay, [170];
returns to, unsuccessful, [173];
sails again from, [177], and joins main fleet in the Chesapeake, [184].
Navy, and Navies, Washington's remark that to them belonged "the casting vote" in the War of American Independence, [4], [147];
exercised on two decisive occasions, by Arnold on Lake Champlain, 1776, and by de Grasse at Yorktown, 1781, [4], [7], [9], [168], [176], [178], [179], [184];
decisive influence also in American War of Secession, [4];
present and future dependence upon, of Monroe Doctrine and of question of Asiatic Immigration, [4], [5];