52-254;
estimate of, 254, 255.

De Ternay, French Commodore, commands squadron with convoy, from
Brest for Newport, R.I., 155;
action with British squadron under Cornwallis, 1780, 155-157;
comment, favorable and unfavorable, 156;
death of, 1781, and succeeded by des Touches, 170.

Des Touches, French Commodore, succeeds de Ternay in command at
Newport, 1781, 170;
sails to enter Chesapeake Bay, to check British operations in
Virginia, 170;
pursued by Arbuthnot, 171;
action between the two squadrons, 171-173;
gains tactical advantage, but leaves the field to the British,
174;
justified by de Barras, who arrives and supersedes him, 174.

De Vaudreuil, Marquis, French Admiral, second to de Grasse in
1782, 209;
commands-in-chief partial attack on Hood's division, 209;
quoted, 214;
succeeds to chief command upon de Grasse's surrender, 222;
condition of his command after the battle, 223;
pursued by Rodney, but reaches Cap Francois, 225.

Doggers Bank, Battle of the, 1781, 189-194.

Dominica, British West India Island, captured by French, 1778, 99;
battle of, 208, 209, 210, 213, 215.

Douglas, Sir Charles, British naval captain, commands squadron
which relieves Quebec, 1776, 10;
quoted, 11, 14, 17, 18, 22, 25, 26;
energetic preparations by, to regain control of Lake Champlain,
15-17;
force created by, 17;
made a baronet for his services at this time, 26;
captain of the fleet to Rodney, 1782, 222;
opinion as to Rodney's conduct cited, 222.

Farragut, at Mobile, cited in illustration, 66 (note).

Fighting Instructions, Additional, point in, bearing upon the
failure of Rodney's plan of attack, April 17, 1780, 133,
138, 139 (and note).

"Fleet in Being," 73, 174;
how regarded, apparently, by D'Orvilliers in 1779, 119.

France, intervention of France in the American quarrel determined
by Burgoyne's defeat, and leads to Spanish intervention,
3, 58, 116;
vacillating naval instructions of Government of, 83, 118, 119,
141, 154;
divergence of views between Spain and, 120, 121, 147, 158, 186,
188, 189.

France, Ile de (now Mauritius), French naval station in Indian
Ocean, 126, 234, 236, 239.

Gardiner's Bay, east end of Long Island, station of British fleet