The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

Valuable for the naval defence of Charleston, 1779-1780.

Clowes, W. L. Royal Navy. 7 vols. Boston and London, 1897-1903.

Gives good accounts of the cruise of the “Randolph” in 1778, and the capture of the “South Carolina” in 1782.

Connecticut Gazette for 1782, New London.

Reports the capture of the Bahamas by the Spaniards and Commodore Gillon.

Cooper’s Statutes of South Carolina. 10 vols. Columbia, 1836-41.

Valuable for naval legislation.

Deane Papers. Collections of the New York Historical Society. 5 vols. New York, 1886-90.

Serviceable for Gillon’s movements in Europe.

Drayton, W. H. Memoirs of the American Revolution. 2 vols. Charleston, 1821.