takes the offensive, 17;
delayed decisively by Arnold's preparations on Lake Champlain,
13, 18;
battle of Valcour Island, 20-23;
successfully eluded by Arnold, 23;
honored by Government for the campaign, 26.

Carolinas, North and South, supposed British sympathies in, 31,
exaggerated, 175;
expedition against Charleston, and battle of Charleston Harbor,
1776, 31-38;
operations against, and against Georgia, renewed, 1779, 113-115,
and 1780, 151-153;
disastrous consequences to British operations, 114, 152, 174-176.

Champlain, Lake, Decisive effect of naval operations upon, 3, 4,
7, 13, 14, 25, 26;
strategic importance of, 7;
naval campaign upon, 1775-1776, chapter i;
remains in naval control of British throughout the war, 28.

Charleston, South Carolina, attack upon by British squadron, 1776,
32-37;
siege and capture of, by the British, 1780, 114, 151.

Chesapeake Bay, naval command of, by French, 1781, accomplishes
independence of United States, 4, 114, 184;
Sir William Howe moves by way of, against Philadelphia, 1777, 52;
operations in and near, 1781, 169-174, 177-185;
British control of, in 1781, prior to arrival of de Grasse, 174;
de Grasse reaches, 1781, 178.

Clinton, Sir Henry, British General, commands land force employed
in Carolinas, 1776, 31, 32;
in seizure of Narragansett Bay, 48;
left in command at New York by Howe, 1777, 52;
advance up the Hudson River, 1777, 55;
relieves Howe as Commander-in-Chief in North America, 56, 63;
evacuates Philadelphia, and retreats upon New York, 1778, 63;
narrowness of his escape, 63, 64;
evacuates Narragansett Bay, 1779, 115;
operations of, in South Carolina, and capture of Charleston, 151;
leaves Cornwallis in command in Carolina, and returns to New
York, 152;
sends detachments to Virginia, for diversion in favor of
Cornwallis, 1781, 153, 169;
serious difference of opinion between, and Cornwallis, 115, 175;
orders of, to Cornwallis, which result in position at Yorktown,
1781, 175.

Commerce, effects upon, through inadequate naval preparation,
59-61, 117, 126, 158;
table of losses of British, 61 (note).

Convoys, effect of, upon naval action, strategic or tactical, 105,
106, 109, 122, 126, 130, 148, 155-157