Captain Mahan, U.S.N., wrote the British naval history of the period in Clowes (editor), "The Royal Navy, a History", vol.III, pp.

353-564 (1898).

Of great value also is Mahan's "Influence of Sea Power on History" (1890) and "Major Operations of the Navies in the War of Independence" (1913).

He may be supplemented by C.O.

Paullin's "Navy of the American Revolution" (1906) and G.W.