the, 79, 112

Bacon, quoted, 6

Baraille, De, his part in the Dunkirk campaign, 87, 88

Barham, Lord, 18, 64;
and Nelson, 66, 67;
his conduct of the Trafalgar campaign, 118

Base, flying, 142;
naval, 137

Battle-cruiser, its functions, 122-128

Beachy Head, Battle of, 32, 35;
campaign of, 70, 78

Berlin Decrees, 100

Bettesworth, 118

Blockade, 17;
a form of disputed command, 20-29;
military, its methods, 23;
military and commercial, 21

Bolt from the blue, 80, 89

Boscawen, at Lagos, 79

Brest, 33, 35;
blockaded by Cornwallis, 30;
blockaded by Hawke, 79;
De Roquefeuil at, 81, 82

Bridge, Admiral Sir Cyprian, on a fleet in being, 31;
on supply and communications of a fleet, 140;
his estimate of Torrington, 32, 40;
on Torrington's trial, 42

Brundusium, Caesar at, 72

Cadiz, Killigrew at, 34

Caesar, his Pharsalian campaign, 71, 72

Calais, the Armada at, 79

Calder, his action off Finisterre, 118;
Barham's instructions to, 64

Camperdown, Duncan at, 126

Cape St Vincent, meeting of Nelson with Craig and Knight off, 65

Capital ships, 113

Carthagena, Spanish ships at, 66

Charles, Prince, 82

Chateau-Renault, 33, 35

Clausewitz, his definition of war, 4;
on limited and unlimited war, 5, 22

Colomb, Admiral, on differentiation of naval force, 114;
on Torrington's strategy, 40, 43, 79

Command of the sea, 6, 10, 11-19, 20, 21, 50, 52, 54, 71, 94, 98, 121,
133, 134, 135;
its true meaning, 15, 135;
no meaning except in war, 15, 135

Command of the sea, disputed, in general, 49-67

Commerce, maritime, extent of British, 53;
in war, 93-110;
its modern conditions, 101-110

Concentration of naval force, its conditions, 132

Conflans, at Brest, 79

Corbett, Mr Julian, 62, 67;
on the Dunkirk campaign, 89;
on commerce in war, 105;
on Craig's expedition, 61, 66;
on projects of invasion, 77;
on the Trafalgar campaign, 118

Cornwallis, and the blockade of Brest, 18, 30

Craft, small, 57, 76

Craig, his expedition to the Mediterranean, 61-67

Cuba, its deliverance by the United States, 54

Dalny, Togo at, 26, 143

Dettingen, 80

Downs, the, Norris ordered to, 85

Duncan, at Camperdown, 126

Dungeness, Roquefeuil anchors at, 87;
Norris at, 88;
Norris and Roquefeuil at, 89

Dunkirk, troops collected at, 81;
embargo at, 83;
Saxe and Baraille at, 88

Egypt, Napoleon's descent on, 73

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