Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution
By: Ernest McNeill Eller, editor.
Contributors: Eller, Ernest McNeill, 1903-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tidewater Publishers
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Centreville, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [551]-567.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution / Ernest M. Eller; title: The "pirate" peer / Alf J. Mapp, Jr.; title: Ships and shipbuilding in the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries / Arthur Pierce Middleton; title: Chesapeake Bay ships and seamen in the Continental navy / Nathan Miller; title: The Virginia State Navy / Joseph A. Goldenberg and Marion West Stoer; title: The Maryland State Navy / Myron J. Smith, Jr. and John G. Earle.; title: Privateering from the bay, including admiralty courts and Tory as well as Patriot operations / Marshall Booker; title: Trial and triumph, the impact of the revolutionary war on the Baltimore merchants / Todd Cooper; title: Virginia ports in the American Revolution / Joseph A. Goldenberg; title: British invade the Chesapeake 1777 / J.A. Robinson; title: Tory operations on the bay from Dunmore's departure to the end of war / Edwin M. Jameson; title: Annapolis meets the crisis / Jane McWilliams and Morris L. Radoff; title: The Old Dominion under fire / Robert Fallaw and Marion West Stoer; title: Washington's maritime strategy and the campaign that assured independence / Ernest M. Eller.