First Salute (55 page)

15
WILLIAM V WISHED HIS FATHER HAD NEVER BECOME STADTHOLDER:
Schama, 57.

16
“I WISH I WERE DEAD”:
q. Schulte, 14.

17
TWENTY-FOUR SHIPS DISCUSSED FOR SEVEN YEARS:
Blok, V, 61-2.

18
ON DECLINE:
Blok, V, 146 ff., and VI, 188-92; Schulte, prologue, 3-17.

19
YORKE, “MERCHANTS OR MONEY GETTERS”:
q. Schulte, 6.

20
JOHANN HERDER, HOLLAND “IS SINKING”:
ibid., 7-8.

21
ADAMS DISENCHANTED, “THIS COUNTRY IS INDEED”:
Adams,
Works
, VII, 418-19.

22
HERMAN COLENBRANDER ACKNOWLEDGED THE URGE:
q. Schulte, 6.

23
WALPOLE, “A TERRESTRIAL PARADISE”:
to Mann, May 18, 1782,
Corres
., XXV.

24
ON VAN DER CAPELLEN:
van Loon, 200; Schulte, 21-31.

25
“A LAFAYETTE WITH AN EVEN LIGHTER HEAD”:
q. Schulte, 22.

26
SCOTS BRIGADE:
Schama, 37; van Loon, 185; Blok, V, 158.

27
VAN DER CAPELLEN’S SPEECH ON SCOTS BRIGADE:
Schulte, 26; Edler, 32.

28
COLPOYS PROTESTS SALUTE OF THE AMERICAN VESSELS:
Clark, 586-8.

29
THE BRIG
SMACK
AND BRIG
BETSY
AND CARGOES:
Augur, 23.

30
YORKE, “TO RESTORE THE APPEARANCE”:
to Suffolk, May 29, 1778, q. Edler, 101.

31
“MULTIPLY LIKE SAND”:
the phrase was used by Desnoyers, French chargé at The Hague to Vergennes, September 10, 1776, q. Edler, 22, n. 1.

32
“A DESULTORY RAGE OF A FEW ENTHUSIASTS”:
September 25, 1780, q. Smith,
John Adams
, I, 483.

33
BUFFON, “NIGGARDLY SKY AND UNPROLIFIC LAND”:
q. Schulte. This and other statements of the time about Americans and America by European travelers and pseudo-scientific writers are quoted in Schulte, 133-40.

34
UNLIMITED CONVOY:
Boxer, 112-15; Blok, V, 164-8.

35
VAUGUYON, A POLICY OF EASE AND QUIET:
Edler, 20, n. 1.

36
FIELDING-BYLANDT COMBAT:
Blok, V, 165-6.

37
MARINE COMMITTEE’S PLANS FOR JONES:
Morison,
Jones
, 76-7.

38
FIGHT OF
BONHOMME RICHARD
AND
SERAPIS
:
Whipple, 48-9; Lorenz, 288 et seq.

39
YORKE’S ACCESS TO SECRET CORRESPONDENCE:
Edler, 17, n. 3.

40
BANCROFT AS “SUPREME SPY”:
Augur, 136.

41
JONES REPORTS THE DUTCH PEOPLE ARE FOR US:
q. Schama, 62.

42
YORKE’S PROTESTS ON PRESENCE OF JONES:
q. Schulte, 72-3; Lorenz, 320.

43
“A THOUGHT STRUCK ME YESTERDAY,” YORKE WROTE TO THE ADMIRALTY:
q. Lorenz, 327.

44
JONES, “DRAWBRIDGES HAULED UP OR LET DOWN AT OUR DISCRETION”:
q. Schulte, 73.

45
THE DE NEUFVILLE OR SECRET TREATY:
Augur, 322; Bemis, 289 ff.

46
WILLIAM V WOULD RESIGN AS STADTHOLDER RATHER THAN ACCEPT THE TREATY:
Schulte, 63.

47
SECRET TREATY BECOMES PUBLICLY KNOWN:
van Loon, 221, 252 ff.

48
CATHERINE II AND THE NEUTRALITY LEAGUE:
de Madariaga, 383-5.

49
“
LA MARIÉE EST TROP BELLE. ON VEUT ME TROMPER”
:
q. Haslip, 278.

50
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, “EVERY NATION IN EUROPE”:
Committee of Secret Correspondence, March 12, 1977, q. Edler, 9.

51
FIVE PRINCIPLES OF NEUTRALITY:
Bemis, 152 ff.

52
CABINET MEETING AT WHICH LORD NORTH FELL ASLEEP:
Mackesy, 378-9.

53
MALMESBURY, “UNGRATEFUL DIRTY SENSELESS BOORS”:
to Sir Robert Keith, November 29, 1780, Malmesbury,
Diaries
, I, 345.

54
LAURENS LOSES DE NEUFVILLE TREATY OVERBOARD:
Blok, V, 168; Schulte, 148.

55
STORMONT TO YORKE, “EQUIVALENT TO ACTUAL AGGRESSION”:
q. Schulte, 149.

56
LAURENS PAPERS WOULD GIVE “PROPEREST DIRECTION TO THE WAR”:
ibid.

57
PUBLICATION WOULD “OCCASION A WONDERFUL ALARM”:
ibid.

58
YORKE DEMANDS PUNISHMENT OF VAN BERCKEL ET AL.:
Schulte, 150; Blok, V, 168.

59
ADAMS REPORTS YORKE TREATING AMSTERDAM AS BOSTON:
q. Schulte, 150.

60
ADAMS, “A VIOLENT STRUGGLE” IN THE REPUBLIC:
to Congress, December 25, 1780, Adams,
Works
, VII, 346-7.

61
DUTCH JOIN THE LEAGUE:
Blok, V, 168-9; Madariaga, 238.

62
LORD NORTH’S SPEECH ANNOUNCING THE WAR:
January 25, 1781, GB Parl.

Correspondence and remarks by and about Admiral Rodney not cited are from the biographies by Mundy and Spinney; on conditions under sail: Whipple; Mahan,
Types
; Morison,
Jones
.

1
RODNEY RECEIVES ORDERS JANUARY 27 TO TAKE ST. EUSTATIUS:
Mahan,
Types
, 217.

2
“FIRST OBJECTS OF ATTACK”:
Spinney, 360, q. from
Sandwich Papers
, IV, 128.

3
GREAT “QUANTITIES OF PROVISIONS … LAID UP THERE”:
Mundy, II, 8.

4
ATTACK ON EUSTATIUS “A MOST PROFOUND SECRET”:
ibid., 15.

5
RODNEY DEMANDS “INSTANT SURRENDER”:
ibid., 12-13.

6
“MORE DETRIMENTAL”:
Rodney to Sandwich, February 7, 1781,
Sandwich Papers
, IV, 148.

7
RODNEY ENTERS ST. EUSTATIUS FLYING FRENCH FLAG:
Miller, 591.

8
RODNEY’S CONFISCATIONS:
Hartog, chap. 9; Jameson, 700 et seq.; Augur, 323; Larrabee, 165.

9
SINGLES OUT THE JEWS:
Hartog, 88; Jameson, 705; Hannay, 154.

10
RODNEY ON DE GRAAFF AS “FIRST MAN WHO INSULTED THE BRITISH FLAG”:
to Stephens, March 6, 1781, q. Mundy, II, 46.

11
DE GRAAFF SEIZED AND SENT AS PRISONER TO BRITAIN:
Mundy, II, 46.

12
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY:
Augur, 53.

13
MERCHANTS’ PAPERS DEPOSITED WITH LORD GEORGE GERMAIN:
Spinney, 420; MacIntyre, 163.

14
PAPERS MISSING AFTER THE WAR:
Augur, 325; Larrabee, 168.

15
WIFE WRITES, “JOY TO YOU, MY DEAR SIR GEORGE”:
March 17, 1781, Mundy, II, 50-1.

16
ADAMS REPORTS “GLOOM AND TERROR” IN THE NETHERLANDS:
Adams,
Works
, VII, 523.

17
RODNEY, “LOSS TO HOLLAND … GREATER THAN CAN BE CONCEIVED”:
Mundy, II, 15-16.

18
BURKE’S SPEECH ON CRUELTY AND OPPRESSION OF RODNEY:
debate November 30, 1781, GB Parl.

19
GERMAIN’S DEFENSE OF RODNEY:
ibid.

20
CHARLES JAMES FOX’S SPEECH:
ibid.

21
DEFENSE BY LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND:
ibid.

22
RODNEY, “NEST OF VIPERS”:
Mundy, II, 29.

23
RODNEY, “THEY DESERVE SCOURGING”:
to Germain, q. Jameson, 702.

24
RODNEY’S LOSS:
Larrabee, 167-8; Jameson, 707, 708n.

25
RODNEY AND VAUGHAN WILL LEAVE THE ISLAND “A MERE DESERT … THIS ROCK … HAS DONE ENGLAND MORE HARM,” APRIL 23, 1781:
Mundy, II, 97.

26
A FAMILY OF GREATER ANTIQUITY THAN FAME:
Hannay, I.

27
KING GEORGE I AS GODFATHER:
Hannay, 4; Spinney, 19, declares this claim is a myth.

28
WRAXALL, “TWO PASSIONS HIGHLY INJURIOUS”:
Wraxall, 130.

29
WALPOLE, THE PRINCESS AMELIA AND “LITTLE MISS ASHE”:
to Montagu, June 23, 1750, Walpole,
Corres
., IX, 106, n. 13; Wraxall, 130.

30
RODNEY, “MAKING HIMSELF FREQUENTLY THE THEME OF HIS OWN DISCOURSE”:
Wraxall, 130.

31
“HIS PERSON WAS MORE ELEGANT”:
ibid.

32
“THE MOST ENTERPRISING AND IRASCIBLE”:
Valentine,
Establishment
, II, 747.

33
ADMIRAL KING:
Hough, 219.

34
ADMIRAL HYDE PARKER, LESTOCK, MATHEWS, D’ESTAING AND OTHERS WHO WERE IRASCIBLE:
Lestock and Mathews, MacIntyre, 20; Hyde Parker and d’Estaing, Lewis, C. L., 71-80.

35
DE GRASSE ADMINISTERED “SHARPEST REPROACHES”:
Tornquist, 42.

36
SANDWICH, “NO SET OF MEN UNDERSTAND THESE MATTERS SO ILL”:
q. Martelli, 23.

37
“CHARMING MARITIME ILL-TEMPER”:
Anonymous, 63.

38
ADMIRAL MAHAN ON NEED OF EDUCATION:
Mahan,
Influence
, 267.

39
HAKLUYT, CHARLES V WITH “GREAT FORESIGHT”:
Richard Hakluyt,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics, and Discoveries of the English Nation
, Glasgow, 1903, I, 34-5.

40
ENGLISH LOOT AT FINISTERRE:
Lewis, C. L., 24-7; MacIntyre, 27.

41
FIGHT OF THE
GLOIRE
AT FINISTERRE:
Lewis, C. L., 24-6.

42
PRIZE LAW ON DIVISION OF LOOT AMONG OFFICERS:
MacIntyre, 26; Morison,
Jones
, 68.

43
RODNEY’S SHARE WAS £8,165:
Spinney, 80.

44
LOOT AT HAVANA:
Lewis, C. L., 69.

45
BRITISH NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS CUT:
Kennedy, 109.

46
FRENCH NAVAL THEORY, ADMIRAL GRIVEL QUOTED:
q. Mahan,
Influence
, 289.

47
NELSON’S
VICTORY
REQUIRED 2,500 TREES:
Whipple, 17.

48
CONDUCT OF GUNNERY:
Morison,
Jones
, 41-2.

49
GUN CREWS COULD FIRE ONCE EVERY TWO MINUTES:
Whipple, 30.

50
MANAGEMENT OF SAIL:
Morison,
Jones
, 58; Larrabee, 7.

51
M. MAUREPAS,
PIFF POFF
:
q. Martelli, 215.

52
MATHEWS-LESTOCK QUARREL AT BATTLE OF TOULON:
Mahan,
Influence
, 265-7; Lewis, C. L., 22; MacIntyre, 20-1.

53
MAHAN, “POSSIBLE TAINT OF ILL WILL”:
Mahan,
Influence
, 267.

54
FIGHTING INSTRUCTIONS:
MacIntyre, 21;
Encyc. Brit
., 11th edition: “Toulon”; Whipple, 13.

55
MATHEWS-LESTOCK COURTS-MARTIAL:
MacIntyre, 22-3.

56
LINE AHEAD:
Whipple, 45.

57
LOUIS XVI, “BUT WHO SHALL RESTORE THE BRAVE SAILORS”:
Mundy, II, 273.

58
ADMIRALTY’S REPORT OF 35 SHIPS OF THE LINE:
James, W. M., 122; Mahan,
Influence
, 341.

59
KEPPEL, “NO PLEASURE TO HIS SEAMAN’S EYE”:
ibid.

60
ON CONDITIONS IN THE NAVY:
MacIntyre, 35-6, 74-6.

61
BYNG, “I SHALL ENDEAVOR TO AVOID”:
q. Mahan,
Types
, 571-3; for the case of Admiral Byng, Mahan,
Influence
, 286-91.

62
BYNG CONDEMNED FOR NEGLIGENCE:
MacIntyre, 37.

63
RODNEY AIDS PETITION FOR PARDON:
Spinney, 131.

64
SCHOOLBOY OF EDINBURGH, JOHN CLERK:
Whipple, 53-4.

65
BREAKING THE LINE:
Mahan,
Influence
, 381.

66
CHURCHILL, “PROFESSIONAL HIERARCHY OF THE ROYAL NAVY”:
Hough, 247.

67
BATTLES OFF BREST AND CAPE FINISTERRE:
Spinney, 75-84.

68
GEORGE II ON RODNEY’S YOUTH:
Mundy, I, 43.

69
WALPOLE, “STREETS OF OUR CAPITAL, THE OCEAN”:
to Mann, May 18, 1782,
Corres
., XXV, 277.

70
MAHAN, “KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN HAD BECOME THE BRITISH EMPIRE”:
Mahan,
Influence
, 291.

71
QUIBERON BAY CALLED “THE GREATEST VICTORY”:
Valentine,
Establishment
, I, 429.

72
RODNEY AT LE HAVRE:
Mundy, I, 54-5; Spinney, 153 et seq.

73
COLORS FOR GRADES OF ADMIRAL:
letter to author from Naval Historical Library of Ministry of Defence, London, November 2, 1987.

74
GEORGE III, “OUR ISLANDS MUST BE DEFENDED.… IF WE LOSE OUR SUGAR ISLANDS”:
Sandwich Papers
, III, 163.

75
SANDWICH, FLEET IN LEEWARDS “VERY DEPLORABLE”:
ibid., 164.

76
RODNEY AT MARTINIQUE IN 1761 “SILENCED THE FORTS”:
Mundy, I, 69-70.

77
“NOBLEST AND BEST HARBOUR”:
ibid., 73.

78
“FROM THAT MOMENT,” WROTE RODNEY’S BIOGRAPHER, PREDICTING MOVEMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE:
ibid., 99.

79
ON RANKS OF REAR AND VICE ADMIRAL AND RODNEY’S CAREER PROGRESSION:
Spinney, appendix XI.