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Tango01 | 21 Jan 2016 10:06 p.m. PST |
"When we reflect back at the early period of our naval history, Americans tends to look for battles out on the blue water to mark the beginning of our sea services. John Paul Jones and his battles against HMS Serapis and Drake capture the imagination because of the quotable exclamations of the captain, as well as because of a caricatured Mahanian view of the centrality of big decisive sea battles. Lost in that search for the Midway or Jutland of the distant past is the fact that many of the most important naval fights of the Revolutionary era occurred instead in the green and brown water of the littorals and were conducted by bands of daring men in small boats. Masked behind his desire for a fast ship and his declaration that he had not yet begun to fight, this includes Paul Jones, whose most important operation strategically may have been the small boat raid he and the crew of the Ranger launched against the harbor of Whitehaven, England. Yet years before Paul Jones captured the imagination of the press and the American people, the American Revolution started as a maritime and an irregular conflict. Most Americans are well aware of the importance of the Boston Tea Party, and how the December 1773 harbor attack on three ships helped lead down the path to revolution. However, during the Tea Party the British government was only tangentially attacked. The Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver, the ships attacked that night in Boston Harbor, were privately owned. The cargo which was destroyed belonged to the East India Company, which belonged to its stockholders. While the event was surely an attack on the authority of the Crown, it was not an attack on the Crown itself or the Crown's forces…" Full text here link
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