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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
f the following year. How has history been made the memorial of the Chap. XXIV.} passionate misdeeds of men of mediocrity! The death of Lord Cathcart left the command of the land forces with the inexperienced, irresolute Wentworth; the Smollett. naval force was under the impetuous Vernon, who was impatient of contradiction, and ill disposed to endure even an associate. The enterprise, instead of having one good leader, had two bad ones. Wasting at Jamaica the time from the ninth of January, 1741, till near the end of the month, at last, with 1741 a fleet of twenty-nine ships of the line, beside about eighty smaller vessels, with fifteen thousand sailors, with twelve thousand land forces, equipped with all sorts of warlike instruments, and every kind of convenience, Vernon weighed anchor, without any definite purpose. Havana lay within three days sail; its conquest would have made England supreme in the Gulf of Mexico. But Vernon insisted on searching for the fleet of the