11) Monckton, Robert. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...he was made governor of New York. He was commander of the land forces in Admiral George Rodney's expedition against Martinique (1761-62). He returned to England in...
12) Grasse, Francois Joseph Paul, comte de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...was won, Admiral de Grasse was severely defeated (1782) by the British under Admiral Rodney in the West Indies....
13) Wilmington. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...many historic buildings include Old Swedes Church (1698). Other points of interest are Rodney Square (city center), the Delaware Academy of Medicine, the Delaware...
14) Windward Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...there; in 1782, off Saint Lucia, the French Admiral de Grasse was defeated by Admiral Rodney. In the Napoleonic Wars the islands traded hands, and it was only after...
15) Declaration of Independence. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone,...
16) Delaware, state, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...independence, with two of its three delegates to the Continental Congress-Caesar Rodney and Thomas McKean-voting for independence. George Read, the third Delaware...
17) American Revolution. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...25It was the French fleet-ironically, the same one defeated by the British under Admiral Rodney the next year in the West Indies-that bottled up Cornwallis at Yorktown....
18) integration. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Angeles following the acquittal (1992) of the police officers accused of brutality in the Rodney King case. 22 BibliographySee M. R. Konvitz, A Century of Civil Rights...
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