XI THE FIRST DUTCH WAR (1623-1653)
XII THE SECOND AND THIRD DUTCH WARS (1665-1673)

PART III--THE FRENCH WAR

XIII THE FIRST WAR AGAINST LOUIS XIV (1689-1697)
XIV THE SECOND WAR AGAINST LOUIS XIV (1702-1713)
XV WAR AGAINST FRANCE AND SPAIN (1739-1748)
XVI PITT'S IMPERIAL WAR (1756-1763)
XVII THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1775-1783)
XVIII NELSON (1798-1805)
XIX "1812"

BOOK III

THE AGE OF STEAM AND STEEL

WHEN THE BRITISH COMMAND OF THE SEA SAVED THE WORLD
FROM GERMAN SLAVERY IN THE GREATEST OF ALL WARS

1914-1918

PART I--A CENTURY OF CHANGE (1814-1914)

XX A CENTURY OF BRITISH-FRENCH-AMERICAN PEACE (1815-1914)
XXI A CENTURY OF MINOR BRITISH WARS (1815-1914)

PART II--THE GREAT WAR (1914-1918)

XXII THE HANDY MAN
XXIII FIFTY YEARS OF WARNING (1864-1914)
XXIV WAR (1914-1915)
XXV JUTLAND (1916)
XXVI SUBMARINING (1917-1918)
XXVII SURRENDER! (1918)
XXVIII WELL DONE!

POSTSCRIPT THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS

[Transcriber's note: The following two errata items have been applied
to this e-book.]

ERRATA

Page XIII. For "Henry VII's" read "Henry VIII's."

Page 254. L. 20 for "facing the Germans" read "away from Scheer,"

ILLUSTRATIONS

VIKING MAN-OF-WAR. . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"DUG-OUT" CANOE

ROMAN TRIREME--A vessel with three benches of oars

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S TRANSPORTS

Eddystone Lighthouse, 1699. The first structure of stone and timber.
Build for Trinity House by Winstanley and swept away in a storm.
Eddystone Lighthouse, 1882. The fourth and present structure, erected
by Sir J. N. Douglass for Trinity House.

The _Santa Maria_, flagship of Christopher Columbus when he discovered
America in 1492. Length of keel, 60 feet. Length of ship proper, 93
feet. Length over all, 128 feet. Breadth, 26 feet. Tonnage, full
displacement, 233.

DRAKE

One of Drake's Men-of-War that Fought the Great Armada in 1588.

ARMADA OFF FOWEY (Cornwall) as first seen in the English Channel.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ON BOARD THE _REVENGE_ receiving the surrender of Don
Pedro de Valdes.

SAILING SHIP. The Pilgrim Fathers crossed in a similar vessel (1620).

LA HOGUE, 1692.

H.M.S. _Centurion_ engaged and took the Spanish Galleon _Nuestra
Senhora de Capadongo_, from Acapulco bound to Manila, off Cape Espiritu
Santo, Philippine Islands, June 20, 1743.

The _ROYAL GEORGE_

NELSON

FIGHTIN