84.
[150] De Barras had been unwilling to go to the Chesapeake, fearing to be intercepted by a superior force, and had only yielded to the solicitation of Washington and Rochambeau.
[151] Naval Researches: Capt.

Thomas White, R.N.
[152] White: Naval Researches.
[153] Bouclon: La Marine de Louis XVI., p.281.Under a rather misleading title this work is really a lengthy biography of Liberge de Granchain, chief of staff to the French squadron under Ternay.
[154] Diary of a French officer, 1781; Magazine of American History for March, 1880.

The works at the time of Rodney's visit to New York were doubtless less complete than in 1781.

This authority, a year later, gives the work on Rose Island twenty 36-pounders.
[155] Sir Thomas Graves, afterward second in command to Nelson in the attack at Copenhagen in 1801,--an enterprise fully as desperate and encompassed with greater difficulties of pilotage than the one here advocated.

See biographical memoir, Naval Chronicle, vol.viii.
[156] Rodney's Life, vol.i.p.