The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence

by A. T. Mahan

military explanation for this "casting vote," [5];

Pacific question essentially one of, [5];

military reasons for general dominant effect of, in War of Independence, [6], [114];

British, saves Canada for Great Britain, [12];

specific effect, on ultimate result of the general war, exerted by American, on Lake Champlain, 1776, [12], [13], [14], [25];

inadequacy of British, to demands upon it, [29], [30], [59], [62], [79], [82], [99], [116], [117], [120], [127], [148], [189], [193], [226];

British, in operations at New York, 1776, [40], [44], [47];

in Burgoyne's advance, 1777, [51];

misuse of British, to divide the land forces, [51], [52], [114], [115], [152];

subsidiary operations of British, [56], in the Carolinas, [151], in Virginia, [170];