abandoned by British, 115;
occupied by French, 150, 155, 170, 173, 174, 179. See
Narragansett Bay.

New York, water communications between St. Lawrence and, 7, 8;
British occupy harbor of, 1776, 38;
operations around, 1776, 39-46;
harbor, approaches, and fortifications about, 40-42;
Washington abandons, 45, 46;
British occupy, 45;
British forces in, unable to cooeperate with those in
Philadelphia, 56, 63;
Lord Howe's preparations to defend, 64-67;
d'Estaing's failure to attack, 67, 68;
Rodney goes from West Indies to, 150, 152, 159.

Order, of Battle, 93 (and note), 137-140, 191;
comparison between Keppel's, off Ushant, and Byron's, off
Grenada, 112;
Graves', off Cape Henry, 179-183, criticized by Hood, 181, 182;
Hood's at anchor off St. Kitts, 202, 203.

Palliser, Sir Hugh, British Admiral, third in command at Battle of
Ushant, 84, 87, 90, 91, 93-96;
court of inquiry upon, 95-97.

Parker, Sir Hyde, (1) British Admiral, left in temporary command
at New York by Howe, 1778, 80 (and note);
in like position in Leeward Islands by Byron, 1779-1780, 113, 128;
biographical summary of, 113;
quoted, 129, 130;
nickname of, 130;
implied censure of, by Rodney, in battle of April 17, 1780, 136;
returns to England, 136;
commands at Battle of the Dogger Bank, 189-193;
his reply to George III, 193;
ordered to East Indian command, and lost at sea, 194.

Parker, Hyde, (2) British Naval captain (afterwards Admiral Sir
Hyde), in operations about New York, 1776, 39, 44, 46;
in expedition against Savannah, 1778, 113, 114;
biographical summary of, 113 (note). (In 1801,
commander-in-chief over Nelson, at Copenhagen, 39, 80,
note).

Parker, Sir Peter, British Admiral, commands naval force in
expedition against Charleston, 1776, 31;
attack of, upon Fort Moultrie, 33-38;
gives promotion to Nelson, Collingwood, and Saumarez, 38;
at operations around New York, 38, 43, 45, and at Narragansett
Bay, 48;
commands Jamaica Station, 149, 153, 155, 159, 176, 177, 185;
superseded at Jamaica by Graves, 1781, 185.

Pellew, Edward, (afterwards Admiral Lord Exmouth), British
midshipman, at Lake Champlain, 1776, 22;
in Burgoyne's advance to Saratoga, 1777, 51.

Philadelphia, occupation of, by B