06;
dangers to United States, by blockades, 84-87;
commercial policy of United States, 84, 88;
French, in 1660, 93;
Dutch, in 1660, 95-97, 131;
rivalry of English and Dutch, 100, 107;
Leibnitz's proposition to Louis XIV. to seize Egypt, 141, 142;
influence of Dutch wealth, 167, 176, 187, 197, 270, 279;
sufferings of Dutch, 38, 160, 167, 168;
gains to English, by policy of Louis XIV. 167, 170;
effect of injury to, in hastening war, 176, 177;
bearing of, upon War of Spanish Succession, 201-204, 207, 209;
Methuen Treaty of, with Portugal, 206, 228;
concession to England of the Asiento, or slave trade, 217, 220, 245;
growth of English, during eighteenth century, 220, 223-226, 228,
229, 233, 241, 245, 319, 323, 328;
secret treaty of, made with England by claimant to Spanish throne, 221;
decay of Dutch, in early part of eighteenth century, 69, 220-222, 224;
English, contraband with Spanish America, 240, 241, 245-247;
sufferings of, 1740-1748, 279, 280;
sufferings of, 1756-1763, 311, 312, 317-319;
prosperity of English commerce, 1756-1763, 297, 318, 319, 323;
effect of commercial interests on the results at Yorktown, 392;
great centre of English, 539 (note);
policy of Great Britain as to neutral, 540.

_Commerce-Destroying_ (Cruising Warfare),
a strategic question, 8;
dependence on geographical position, 31;
diffusion of effort, 31;
disadvantageous position of United States, 31, 540 (note);
Spanish treasure-ships, 41, 51, 207, 262, 313, 316;
English and Dutch commerce defy, 51, 133, 134, 135, 206, 229, 297,
317, 318, 319, 539, 540;
Charles II. resorts to it as a substitute for great fleets, 131;
disastrous results, 132;
discussion of, as a principal mode of warfare, 132-136;
dependent upon a near base or upon powerful fleets, 132, 196, 230, 314;
illustrations, 1652-1783, 133-136;
injurious reaction on the nation relying upon it, 136;
illustrations, 136-138;
mistaken conclusions drawn from American privateering in 1812, and
from the Confederate cruisers, 137, 138;
effect of great navies, 138;
illustrations, after battle of Solebay, 148;
after battle of Texel, 154;
decline of Dutch navy, 160,
and consequent increase of commerce-destroying by French privateers, 167;
in the war of 1689-1697, discussion, 193-196;
in the war of 1702-1713, 228-230;
in war of 1739-1748, 280;
in Seven Years' War, 295, 297, 311, 314, 316, 3