Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution Ernest McNeill Eller, editor

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eller, Ernest McNeill, 1903-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).

Physical Description:

xxxv, 600 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Centreville, Md. : Tidewater Publishers, c1981.

Contents:

Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution / Ernest M. Eller

The "pirate" peer / Alf J. Mapp, Jr.

Ships and shipbuilding in the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries / Arthur Pierce Middleton

Chesapeake Bay ships and seamen in the Continental navy / Nathan Miller

The Virginia State Navy / Joseph A. Goldenberg and Marion West Stoer

The Maryland State Navy / Myron J. Smith, Jr. and John G. Earle.

Privateering from the bay, including admiralty courts and Tory as well as Patriot operations / Marshall Booker

Trial and triumph, the impact of the revolutionary war on the Baltimore merchants / Todd Cooper

Virginia ports in the American Revolution / Joseph A. Goldenberg

British invade the Chesapeake 1777 / J.A. Robinson

Tory operations on the bay from Dunmore's departure to the end of war / Edwin M. Jameson

Annapolis meets the crisis / Jane McWilliams and Morris L. Radoff

The Old Dominion under fire / Robert Fallaw and Marion West Stoer

Washington's maritime strategy and the campaign that assured independence / Ernest M. Eller.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [551]-567.

ISBN:

0870332554

OCLC:

7551212