India Islands of,
taken by Rodney, 160-162;
battle of Doggers Bank, 189-193;
fleet of, held in check by Howe, 1782, 228;
Cape of Good Hope menaced by British, saved by Suffren, 236-238;
Trincomalee, in Ceylon, taken by British, 240, recaptured by
Suffren, 247.

Hood, Sir Samuel (afterwards Lord), British Admiral, arrives in
West Indies, 1781, with reinforcements for Rodney, 160;
sent to cruise off Martinique, to intercept de Grasse, 162;
action between, and de Grasse, 163-167;
exceptional ability of, 166, 184;
French tribute to, 167;
sent by Rodney with fourteen ships-of-the-line to reinforce
North American station, 176;
under command of Admiral Graves, sails for Chesapeake, 177;
part of, in action between Graves and de Grasse, 180-183;
criticisms of, upon Graves's conduct, 181, 182, 184;
returns to West Indies, 185;
in chief command there for two months, 196-205;
brilliant operations of, at St. Kitts, 197-205;
superseded by Rodney's return, 205;
part of, in action of April 9, 1782, 208-210;
in battle of April 12, 212-221;
de Grasse's flagship strikes to, 221;
censures passed by, upon Rodney's course after the battle, 220,
222, 224, 225;
detached in pursuit, captures a small French squadron, 224;
returns to England after the peace, 226.

Hotham, William, British naval Captain, in operations against New
York, 1776, 42;
convoys reinforcement of troops to West Indies, 100;
left in West Indies in temporary command, by Rodney, 148.

Howe, Richard, Earl, British Admiral, appointed to command North
American Station, 1776, 30;
invested also with powers as peace commissioner, 39;
arrives at New York, 39;
failure of peace negotiations, 39;
operations at and about New York, 39, 42-47;
tribute of, to force under his command, 47;
accompanies army expedition to Chesapeake Bay, 52;
operations in the Delaware, 53-55, and coastwise, 56;
purpose of d'Estaing to intercept, in Delaware, 59;
serious exposure of, through inadequate force, 62, 66;
"extricates himself by rapid movements, 62-64;
preparations to defend entrance to New York, 65-68;
inferiority of force to d'Estaing, 66;
follows French Fleet to Narragansett Bay, 70, and by his
presence there induces d'Estaing to abandon siege of