gland, 326.

_Pocock_, British Admiral,
commands British fleet in India and fights three battles with French
fleet, 307-310;
commands fleet in combined expedition against Havana, 314, 315.

_Port Mahon_ and Minorca,
lost to Spain frequently through maritime weakness, 42, 215, 541;
ceded to England in 1713, 62, 219;
strategic importance of, 62, 220, 393, 515;
French expedition against, 285;
Byng defeated in his attempt to relieve, 286-288;
surrender of, to France, 291;
Pitt's offer to exchange Gibraltar for, 298;
restored to England at peace of 1763, 322;
taken from England in 1782, 407, 409;
ceded to Spain in 1783, 540;
again taken by England, 541.

_Portugal_,
decay in sea power and wealth, 52;
cedes Bombay and Tangiers to England, 104;
dependence on England, 105, 208, 315, 320, 321;
Methuen treaty, 206;
alliance with England and Holland, 1704, 208;
advantage of, to England, 208, 213-215, 220, 228;
French and Spaniards invade, 315, 316, 321;
England repels the invasion, 316;
benevolent neutrality of colonial ports to England, 520, 521.

_Ramatuelle_,
work on Naval Tactics, 287, 290, 371-374.

_Rhode Island_,
occupied by the English in the American Revolution, 346;
attack upon by French and Americans, 361-364;
English evacuate, 376, 530;
French occupy, 382, 394;
French position in, 394;
strategic value of, 519, 529, 530 (note).

_Richelieu_, Cardinal,
policy of, 59, 70, 92, 93;
alliance with Spain, 94.

_Rochambeau_, French General,
arrival in America, 382;
despatches to De Grasse, 384, 388;
consultation with Washington, 387, 399;
marches against Cornwallis, 389.

_Rodney_, Sir George B., afterward Lord, British Admiral,
commands squadron in reduction of Martinique, 314;
commander-in-chief in West Indies, 377;
takes or disperses a Spanish squadron, 377, 404, 500 (and note);
personal and military character, 377, 378, 380, 397, 498-500;
actions with De Guichen, 378-381;
divides his fleet and goes to New York, 382;
seizes Dutch West India islands, 382;
sends Hood with fourteen ships to New York, and returns to England, 389;
returns to West Indies, 479;
sails in chase of De Grasse, 480;
action of April 9, 1782, 481-483;
battle of April 12, 1782, 485-490;
criticism upon his tactics, 490-493;
criticism upon his failure to pursue the beaten enemy, 496, 497;
his successes, 500;
rewards and de