ideas, 20;
Battle of Valcour Island, 21;
successful withdrawal after defeat, 23;
overtaken and flotilla destroyed, 25;
effect of his resistance in delaying British advance, 25;
conduct, courage, and heroism throughout, 27;
his subsequent treason, 18, 27, 152;
commands British detachment in Virginia, 153, 169, 170, 174.

Asiatic Immigration, Danger involved in, 4.

Barbados, West India Island, headquarters of British Leeward
Islands Station, 99;
advantage of Santa Lucia over, 104, 144, 207;
notably for crippled ships, 144;
devastated by hurricane, 1780, 159.

Bartington, Samuel, British Admiral, commands Leeward Islands
Station, 99;
capture of Santa Lucia by, 100-102;
successfully resists d'Estaing's effort to recapture, 103, 104;
superseded in chief command by Byron, 105;
share in Byron's action with d'Estaing, 107, 109;
goes home wounded, 112;
refuses command-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, 1780, 157;
serves in it under Howe, 227;
captures a French convoy for East Indies, 227.

Basse Terre, St. Kitts, Operations around, 1782, 196-205;
character of anchorage at, 199.

Battle, Order of, defined, 93 (note), 200 (note).

Battles, Naval, Valcour Island, October 11, 1776, 19-23.
Charleston Harbor, June 28, 1776, 33.
D'Estaing and Howe, August 10 and 11, 1778, 73-75.
Ushant, July 27, 1778, 84-91.
Barrington and d'Estaing, Santa Lucia, December 15, 1778, 102-104.
Byron and d'Estaing, Grenada, July 6, 1779, 105-112.
De Langara and Rodney, Cape St. Vincent, January 16, 1780, 123.
De Guichen and Rodney, off Martinique, April 17, 1780, 131-135.
De Guichen and Rodney, May 15, 1780, 143, 144.
De Guichen and Rodney, May 19, 1780, 144.
Cornwallis and La Motte-Picquet, off Haiti, March 20, 1780, 153.
Cornwallis and de Ternay, June 20, 1780, 155-157.
De Grasse and Hood, off Martinique, April 29, 1781, 163-167.
Arbuthnot and des Touches, off Cape Henry, March 16, 1781,
171-173.
De Grasse and Graves, off Cape Henry, September 5, 1781, 179-183.
The Doggers Bank, August 5, 1781, 189-193.
De Grasse and Hood, St. Kitts, January 25 and 26, 1782, 199-204.
De Grasse and Rodney, near Dominica, April 9 and 12, 1782,
207-221.
Howe with Franco-Spanish Fleet near Gibraltar, October 20, 1782,
231, 232.
Johnstone and Suffren,