239.
_Anson_, British Admiral, expedition to the Pacific, 261;
captures a French squadron, 271.
_Arbuthnot_, British Admiral, engagement with French fleet off the
Chesapeake, 385-387.
_Armed Neutrality_, the, of the Baltic powers, 405.
_Arnold_, Benedict, treason of, 382;
expedition to James River, 385.
_Barbadoes_, strategic value of, 348, 393, 518;
ineffectual attempt of the French against, 469.
_Barrington_, British Admiral, energy of, 365;
takes Sta. Lucia and resists an attack by superior French fleet, 366;
second in command at battle of Grenada, 368;
refuses the command of the Channel fleet, 404;
a whig in politics, 500.
_Battles_, Land, Austerlitz, 24, 47;
Blenheim, 213;
Boyne, 41, 185-187;
Camden, 382, 384;
Ciudad Rodrigo, storming of, 475 (note);
Jena, 47;
Metaurus, 19, 20;
Plassey, 306;
Savannah, assault on, 376;
Yorktown, capitulation of, 390.
_Battles_, Naval (_the list of the principal naval battles,
with plans, will be found on pp. xxiii, xxiv_),
Actium, 13;
Agosta, 165;
Boscawen and De la Clue, 299;
Byng off Minorca, 286,
_plan_ 265;
Cape Passaro, 63, 237;
Chesapeake. 372-374, 389, 391;
Copenhagen, 361;
La Hougue, 189-191,
_plan_ 183;
Lepanto, 13, 50;
Lowestoft, 108;
Malaga, 110, 211, 229;
Mobile, 287, 354, 355, 361;
Navarino, 13 (note);
New Orleans, 354-356;
Nile, 10, 11, 80, 81, 358, 361, 366, 533;
Pocock and D'Ache, 307-310,
_plan_ 162;
Port Hudson, 355, 361;
Rio de Janeiro, expedition against, 230;
Rodney and Langara, 404, 500 (and note);
Schoneveldt 152;
Sta. Lucia, 366, 425, 478;
St Vincent, 11, 356, 358, 476 (note),
_plan_ 146;
Suffren and Hughes, fifth action, 463;
Trafalgar, 9, 11, 12, 23 (note), 24, 47, 85, 353, 354, 357, 438;
Vigo galleons, 207.
_Benbow_, British Admiral,
sent to West Indies, 207;
treason of his captains, 207;
killed in battle. 207.
_Bickerton_, British Admiral,
conducts a powerful convoy to the East Indies, 452;
arrived in India, 458;
activity of, 458, 520;
effects of arrival of, 459, 461.
_Blane_, Sir Gilbert, physician to British fleet, letters of, 497, 499,
500(note), 501.
_Blockade_,
of French ports by English fleets, 23 (note), 30, 210, 296, 297, 383,
387, 402 (and note), 413, 525-527, 532, 533;
of Southern coast of United States, 43, 44, 87 (note);
Napoleon forces England to, 81;
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