RODNEY AND DE GUICHEN'S NAVAL CAMPAIGN IN WEST INDIES.

DE GUICHEN RETURNS TO EUROPE AND RODNEY GOES TO NEW YORK.

LORD CORNWALLIS IN THE CAROLINAS.

TWO NAVAL ACTIONS OF COMMODORE CORNWALLIS.

RODNEY RETURNS TO WEST INDIES 1780 Rodney's Force upon arrival in West Indies 128 Action between British and French Squadrons prior to his arrival 129 Rodney and de Guichen put to sea 130 Action between them of April 17, 1780 131 Cause of Failure of Rodney's Attack 133 His Disappointment in his Subordinates 135 His Expression of his Feelings 135 Discussion of the Incidents and Principles involved 137 The Losses of the Respective Fleets 140 They Continue to Cruise 141 The Action of May 15, 1780 142 That of May 19, 1780 144 The Results Indecisive 144 Contrary Personal Effect produced upon the two Admirals by the encounters 145 De Guichen asks to be Relieved 145 Rodney's Chary Approval of his Subordinates in these two instances 145 Suspicion and Distrust rife in the British Navy at this period 146 Twelve Spanish Sail-of-the-Line, with Ten Thousand Troops, Arrive at Guadeloupe 147 They refuse Cooeperation with de Guichen in the Windward Islands 147 De Guichen Accompanies them to Haiti with his Fleet 147 He declines to Cooeperate on the Continent with the Americans, and sails for Europe 148 Rodney Arranges for the protection of the Homeward West India Trade, and then proceeds to New York 149 Effect of his coming 150 The Year 1780 one of great Discouragement to Americans 151 Summary of the Operations in the Carolinas and Virginia, 1780, which led to Lord Cornwallis's Surrender in 1781 151 Two Naval Actions sustained by Commodore Cornwallis against superior French forces, 1780 153 The Year 1780 Uneventful in European seas 157 Capture of a great British Convoy 157 The Armed Neutrality of the Baltic Powers 158 The Accession of Holland to this followed by a Declaration of War by Great Britain 158 The French Government withdraws all its Ships of War from before Gibraltar 158.