Usage examples of "leewards".
How secondary were the colonies of North America was seen after the Revolution had become an armed struggle, when in 1778 Philadelphia was stripped of 5,000 troops for transfer to the West Indies to ward off French recapture, followed by a second convoy of four regiments to the Leewards and four more to Jamaica in 1779.
Regardless of being nominally grouped with the Leewards, Martinique dominated the windward position.
Eustatius and the public duty of protecting the overvalued West Indies, for which as Commander-in-Chief of the Leewards Rodney felt responsible, blurred his vision.
He reached Barbados on December 6 to find a scene of devastation from one end of the Leewards to the other, as if some avenging army had passed through, bent on ruin.
As commander of the Leewards, Rodney felt that British honor and interest, as well as his own, must not suffer the loss of another island.
Eustatius, two minor properties of the Leewards followed into the French bag while de Grasse, in partnership with the troops of the aggressive Marquis de Bouille, moved on to capture St.
Windward Islands - Grenada, then St Vincent, St Lucia and Martinique - merging into the Leewards - Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua and several small islands at the top right-hand corner.