Bay, 151,
170;
but starts, 1781, for Chesapeake Bay, 170;
returns to, unsuccessful, 173;
sails again from, 177, and joins main fleet in the Chesapeake,
184.

Navy, and Navies, Washington's remark that to them belonged "the
casting vote" in the War of American Independence, 4, 147;
exercised on two decisive occasions, by Arnold on Lake
Champlain, 1776, and by de Grasse at Yorktown, 1781, 4, 7,
9, 168, 176, 178, 179, 184;
decisive influence also in American War of Secession, 4;
present and future dependence upon, of Monroe Doctrine and of
question of Asiatic Immigration, 4, 5;
military explanation for this "casting vote," 5;
Pacific question essentially one of, 5;
military reasons for general dominant effect of, in War of
Independence, 6, 114;
British, saves Canada for Great Britain, 12;
specific effect, on ultimate result of the general war, exerted
by American, on Lake Champlain, 1776, 12, 13, 14, 25;
inadequacy of British, to demands upon it, 29, 30, 59, 62, 79,
82, 99, 116, 117, 120, 127, 148, 189, 193, 226;
British, in operations at New York, 1776, 40, 44, 47;
in Burgoyne's advance, 1777, 51;
misuse of British, to divide the land forces, 51, 52, 114, 115,
152;
subsidiary operations of British, 56, in the Carolinas, 151, in
Virginia, 170;
under Howe, though inadequate, saves Army under Clinton, 63, 64,
and also New York, 64-68, and subsequently Narragansett
Bay with army division at Newport, 72, 77;
tone of French, as indicated by Government instructions, and
action of officers, 83, 89, 91, 92, 166, 235;
effect of seasonal conditions upon operations of, in Europe and
in America, 98, 100, 113, 115, 147, 149, 159;
in East Indies, 251;
inefficiency of Spanish, 116, 125, 147, 189, 231, 232.

Nelson, mentioned or quoted, 38, 39, 109, 126, 132, 140, 155, 160,
202, 225, 226, 243.

New Jersey, Washington crosses from New York into, 45;
operations in, 1776, 46-49;
impracticable to British, in 1777, and consequent effect upon
Howe's course, 51, 52, 56;
retreat of British from Philadelphia through, 1778, 63, 64.

Newport, Rhode Island, taken possession of by British, 47;
importance of, 48;
siege of, by Americans and French, 70, 73, 77;