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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE AMERICAN NAVY OF THE REVOLUTION. BY CHARLES O. PAULLIN. [Charles O. Paullin, naval expert, has devoted special attention to the study of the development of naval warfare during the period of history of which the American Revolution was a part, and has delivered addresses on the subject before the Naval Institute at Annapolis, one of which forms the following article which is published with the approval of the Institute.] American students are more or less familiar with the principal achievements of the continental navy of the American Revolution. Numerous writers have popularized the naval successes of that celebrated sea officer, John Paul Jones. Esek Hopkins, the first and only commander in chief of the American navy, "Commodore" Samuel Tucker, and Captains John Barry, Joshua Barney and Silas Talbot have found their biographers, who have done ample justice to their gallant and praiseworthy conduct. In 1813 Thomas Clark wrote the first narrative history of the continental navy. Clark was not critical of his sources of information, and his statements must be taken with some caution. In 1839 James Fenimore Cooper, the well known novelist, published a readable and entertaining account of the Revolutionary navy, which, upon the whole, has not been improved upon by other writers. This is not to say, however, that Cooper's history is altogether reliable or judicial in its treatment. It is marked by the bias of the period in which it was written. After the manner of our early historians Cooper wrote with a quill plucked from the wing of the American eagle. To the enthusiastic writers who breathed the fresh and invigorating air of the new republic, it seemed unpatriotic, almost traitorous, to write down the seamy side of Revolutionary history. Consequently they tou...
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