The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

THE NAVY OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION

The University of Chicago
FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

The Navy of the
American Revolution

Its Administration, its Policy and
its Achievements

A DISSERTATION

Submitted to the Faculty of the
Graduate School of Arts and Literature
In Candidacy for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of History

By
CHARLES OSCAR PAULLIN
CHICAGO
1906

Copyright, 1906
by
The Burrows Brothers Company
REPUBLICAN PRINTING COMPANY
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA

PREFACE

Several narrative accounts of the navy of the American Revolution have been written. These usually form the introductory part of a history of the American Navy since 1789. The earliest of these accounts is that of Thomas Clark, published in 1814, and probably the best that of James Fenimore Cooper, first printed in 1839. Later narratives are rather more popular than Cooper’s. Many sources of information, which were not accessible to the earlier writers, and were not much used by the later, were drawn upon in the writing of this book. Moreover, the information that is here presented is of a somewhat different sort from that of previous writers; and the method of treatment is new.