ore, weighed
heavily upon the imagination of the British Government, which now
had abandoned all hope of subduing its American Colonies. Upon the
conclusion of peace, in 1783, Pigot and Hood returned to England,
leaving the Leeward Islands' Station under the command of Rear-Admiral
Sir Richard Hughes, an officer remembered by history only through
Nelson's refusing to obey his orders not to enforce the Navigation
Acts, in 1785.

[Footnote 105: James Saumarez, Lord de Saumarez, G.C.B. Born, 1757.
Commander, 1781. Captain, 1782. Captain of _Russell_ in Rodney's
action, 1782. Knighted for capture of frigate _Reunion_, 1793. Captain
of _Orion_ in Bridport's action, at St. Vincent, and at the Nile (when
he was second in command). Rear-Admiral and Baronet, 1801. Defeated
French and Spaniards off Cadiz, July 12th, 1801. Vice-Admiral, 1805.
Vice-Admiral of England and a peer, 1831. Died, 1836.]

[Footnote 106: _Ante_, p. 183.]

[Footnote 107: Probably _Prudent_, 64. There was no _President_ in the
fleet.]

[Footnote 108: The times and general movements are put together from
Hood's Journal and the Log of the _Canada_, published by the Navy
Records Society. "Letters of Lord Hood," pp. 64, 86.]

[Footnote 109: When ships were in order of battle, or column, close
to the wind, if they all tacked at the same time they would still
be ranged on the same line but steering at an angle to it, on the
opposite tack. This formation was called bow and quarter line, because
each vessel had a comrade off its bow--to one side and ahead--and one
off its quarter--to one side but astern. The advantage of this, if
heading towards the enemy, was that by tacking again together they
would be at once again in column, or line ahead, the customary order
of battle.]

[Footnote 110: Illustrations of other phases of this battle can be
found in Mahan's "Influence of Sea Power upon History," pp. 470, 472.]

[Footnote 111: White, "Naval Researches."]

[Footnote 112: Sharp up by the starboard braces, the wind being on the
starboard quarter. This emptied the aftersails of wind, neutralizing
their effect, and, by causing the ship to move more slowly, kept her
longer abreast an anchored opponent.]

[Footnote 113: White, "Naval Researches."]

[Footnote 114: _Ante_, p. 164.]

[Footnote 115: Seven hundred and twenty feet. For ships of the line
of that day this would make the interval between each two about four
ships' length. At five knots speed this dis