article_snippet.sent: One particularly significant document was written by Rear-Admira Hood and details naval failings during the Battle of Chesapeake Bay.
article_snippet.sent: Significant: This letter was written by  Rear-Admira Hood following the Battle of Chesapeake Bay .
article_snippet.sent: Written after the Battle of the Chesapeake (or the Virginia Capes) on 5th September 1781, it offers a critique of the British action and attempts to explain why it ended in a French victory.
article_snippet.sent: Hood, while attempting to exonerate Hood in the letter which was written 11 days after the battle, also includes copies of dispatches and reveals that it could have been a British victory had an earlier opportunity to engage French been taken.