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 D'Estaing sails from Toulon for Delaware Bay, 1778

 British ordered to evacuate Philadelphia

 Rapidity of Lord Howe's movements

 D'Estaing arrives too late

 Follows Howe to New York

 Fails to attack there and sails for Newport

 Howe follows him there

 Both fleets dispersed by a storm

 D'Estaing takes his fleet to Boston

 Howe's activity foils D'Estaing at all points

 D'Estaing sails for the West Indies

 The English seize Sta. Lucia

 Ineffectual attempts of D'Estaing to dislodge them

 D'Estaing captures Grenada

 Naval battle of Grenada, 1779; English ships crippled

 D'Estaing fails to improve his advantages

 Reasons for his neglect

 French naval policy

 English operations in the Southern States

 D'Estaing takes his fleet to Savannah

 His fruitless assault on Savannah

 D'Estaing returns to France

 Fall of Charleston

 De Guichen takes command in the West Indies

 Rodney arrives to command English fleet

 His military character

 First action between Rodney and De Guichen, 1780

 Breaking the line

 Subsequent movements of Rodney and De Guichen

 Rodney divides his fleet

 Goes in person to New York

 De Guichen returns to France

 Arrival of French forces in Newport

 Rodney returns to the West Indies

 War between England and Holland

 Disasters to the United States in 1780

 De Grasse sails from Brest for the West Indies, 1781

 Engagement with English fleet off Martinique.

 Cornwallis overruns the Southern States

 He retires upon Wilmington, N. C., and thence to Virginia

 Arnold on the James River

 The French fleet leaves Newport to intercept Arnold

 Meets the English fleet off the Chesapeake, 1781

 French fleet returns to Newport

 Cornwallis occupies Yorktown

 De Grasse sails from Hayti for the Chesapeake

 Action with the British fleet, 1781

 Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781

 Criticism of the British naval operations

 Energy and address shown by De Grasse

 Difficulties of Great Britain's position in the war of 1778.

 The military policy best fitted to cope with them

 Position of the French squadron in Newport, R. I., 1780.

 Great Britain's defensive position and inferior numbers.

 Consequent necessity for a vigorous initiative

 Washington's opinions as to the influence of Sea Power on the American contest