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 Objectives of the allied operations in Europe

 Spain declares war against England

 Allied fleets enter the English Channel, 1779

 Abortive issue of the cruise

 Rodney sails with supplies for Gibraltar

 Defeats the Spanish squadron of Langara and relieves the place

 The allies capture a great British convoy

 The armed neutrality of the Baltic powers, 1780

 England declares war against Holland

 Gibraltar is revictualled by Admiral Derby

 The allied fleets again in the Channel, 1781

 They retire without effecting any damage to England

 Destruction of a French convoy for the West Indies

 Fall of Port Mahon, 1782

 The allied fleets assemble at Algesiras

 Grand attack of the allies on Gibraltar, which fails, 1782

 Lord Howe succeeds in revictualling Gibraltar

 Action between his fleet and that of the allies

 Conduct of the war of 1778 by the English government

 Influence of Sea Power

 Proper use of the naval force