Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regulars and Hessians, as well as swarms of Indians, is massing troops at St. John's for a march into New York. On the once promising northern front, the only hopeful sign this week was the sound of axes at Skenesborough. There work has begun on the tiny fleet with which Arnold, now a brigadier general, still hopes to challenge the British. The year's military effort in Canada has until now at least kept the Indians from being loosed for frontier raiding in New York and New England, but the dream of the 14th colony seems dashed...
...much needed in Europe and the West Indies. American shipbuilders, using cheap lumber from nearby forests, can turn out high-quality ships for 20 percent to 50 percent less than their European competitors. As a result, almost one-third of the 7,700 vessels in Britain's merchant fleet were made in the Colonies. American ironmakers, centered in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, have also proved that they are as good as any in the world. Already, America produces one-seventh of the world's crude iron (30,000 tons last year). The ironmakers, like other American workmen...
...privateersmen are providing the embargo-ridden American economy with badly needed supplies and giving employment to thousands of Americans thrown out of work by the British blockade. Privateering was legalized throughout the Colonies by the Continental Congress only this past March, and today the privateer fleet already totals 136 ships with 1,360 guns-far outnumbering the Navy's 31 vessels and 586 guns. Of the nearly 50 British ships captured since last November, the large majority have been seized by privateers. So privateering is becoming big business (it is estimated, for example, that Providence, Rhode Island, gained...
...along the Thames to find able-bodied men-and some not so ablebodied. Relying on the peaceful words of the Bourbon Kings of France and Spain, the Admiralty has sent most of its active war vessels -24 ships of the line and 20 frigates-to form an ever growing fleet off the American coast...
...Delegate William Williams impatiently: "Where is Bushnell? Why don't he attempt something? When will or can be a more proper time than is or has been?" The answers might well become clear when General William Howe's brother, Admiral Richard Howe, arrives in New York with a reinforcing fleet later this month (see THE NATION). What could be a better target for the Turtle than the admiral's mighty flagship, the 64-gun Eagle...