slands, Togo at, 26, 143

Embargo, at Dunkirk, 83

Farragut, 7

Fleets, and base, their true relation, 138

Fleet in being, phrase first used by Torrington, 42;
defined, 45, 58;
a form of disputed command, 30-48

Fleets, supply of, 140

Food Supply, Royal Commission on, 99

Fortress fleet, 48, 58;
Admiral Mahan on, 47, 55

Ganteaume, at Brest, 31

General chase, 125

General Staff, the, 117

Germany, Navy Law of 1900, 130

Goschen, Lord, quoted, 124

Gravelines, 79, 87

Gunfleet, the, 37, 40, 44

Hague Conference, 102

Hannay, Mr David, 100

Hannibal, his passage of the Alps, 61

Hardy, Nelson's, on big ships, 124

Hawke, 32;
blockades Brest 79;
at Quiberon Bay, 126

Hornby, Sir Geoffrey, on the command of the sea, 45

Invasion, 51, 68-92;
dilemma of, 70

Invasion over sea, three ways of, 75

James II., 32

Justin of Nassau, and the Armada, 79

Killigrew, Vice-Admiral, 34, 37, 39, 40, 44, 78;
his expedition to Cadiz, 34;
his return to Plymouth, 35.

Knight, Rear-Admiral, escorts Craig, 65

Lagos, Boscawen and De La Clue at, 79

Lepanto, Battle of, 112

Line of battle, the, 113

Lisbon, Craig and Knight at, 65

Lissa, Battle of, 8

Louis XIV., 33

Maddalena Bay, Nelson's base at, 143

Mahan, Admiral, on commerce at sea, 98, 99;
on a fleet in being, 31, 43;
on a fortress fleet, 47, 55;
on Hannibal's passage of the Alps, 61;
on Nelson, 48, 123;
on territorial expansion, 52

Maida, Battle of, 66

Makaroff, Admiral, 47, 59

Manchuria, 59; Japanese successes in, 55

Maria Theresa, 80

Mary, Queen, her orders to Torrington, 40, 44

Mathews, his action off Toulon, 80;
in the Mediterranean, 83, 84

Medina Sidonia, and the Armada, 79

Mediterranean, the, England's position in, 136, 137

Merchant vessels, conversion of into warships at sea, 101-104

Morbihan, the, troops collected in, 79

Napoleon, 30, 31; and the campaign of Trafalgar, 18, 19;
his descent on Egypt, 61, 73;
his ignorance of the sea, 74

Naval force, differentiation of, 111-128;
distribution and supply of, 129-145

Naval strength, measure of, 129

Naval warfare, defined, 1;
special characteristic of, 56;
its limitations, 51;
philosophy of, 145;
its primary aim, 14

Nelson, 18, 32, 46, 123;
his advanced squadron, 127;
and Barham, 66, 67;
his base at Maddalena Bay, 143;
on the blockade of Toulon, 22;
on Craig's e