The American Navy

by French Ensor Chadwick

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This phrase had its origin in the advocacy, by a Dr. Banyan, of a purely vegetable diet.

[2] Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, XI, quoted by Paullin, 389.

[3] See Paullin, “The Navy of the American Revolution.”

[4] Allen, 1, 47.

[5] Lacour-Gayet, “La Marine Militaire de la France sous le Règne de Louis XVI,” 142.

[6] Clowes, “The Royal Navy,” III, 401.

[7] Jones Mss., July 28, 1777, quoted by Allen, 1, 183.

[8] The identical commission for which Conyngham came near suffering was found a few years since in a Paris bookshop and is now in the collection of Navalia formed by the late Captain John S. Barnes of New York.