dence, command self-sacrificing obedience, divine an enemy's plans,
and decide swiftly and resolutely on the way in which they are to be
frustrated.

INDEX

A

Actium, 25, etc.;
topography of, 30;
the battle of, 32, etc.

AEschylus, 2, 21

Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, 27

Alava, Spanish rear-admiral at Trafalgar, 192;
surrenders to Collingwood, 199

Albemarle. _See_ Monk, Duke of

Albini, Italian admiral, second in command at Lissa, 242, etc.

Ali Pasha, Turkish admiral, 85, 86, 88, 93, 103

Alexandria, bombardment of, 253, 254

Allen, Sir Thomas, English admiral in Second Dutch War, 152, etc.

Antony, Mark, 25;
flight from Actium, 35;
death, 38

Antwerp, the great fire-ship of, 130

Aristides, 15;
at Salamis, 21

Armada of 1588, 105, etc.;
organisation and statistics, 111

Armour-clads, early: Erik Jarl's "Iron Beard," 49;
the "Finis Belli" (1585), 209;
floating batteries, 211

Armour-clads, first modern sea-going: the "Gloire" (French), 211;
the "Warrior" (British), 213

Artemisia of Halicarnassus, 11, 15;
at Salamis, 21;
at the council after the battle, 22

Athens, beginnings of its sea-power, 4;
occupied by the Persians, 7

Augustus, 25;
founder of the Roman Empire, 38;
naval policy, 39

B

Bahuchet, French admiral, 61

Baltic Fleet organised by Russia for the Far East, 304;
voyage of, 306;
Dogger Bank incident, 307;
passes Malacca, 309

Barbarigo, Agostino, Venetian admiral, 80, 92;
killed at Lepanto, 103

Barbavera, Genoese admiral at Sluys, 61;
his escape after the battle, 65

Bertendona, admiral of the Levant squadron of the Armada, 112

Bingham, Queen Elizabeth's Governor of Connaught, 138, etc.

Blackwood, captain of Nelson's look-out frigate "Euryalus," 181, 186,
188, 191

Blake, 143, 144

Bragadino, Venetian commandant of Famagusta, 73;
tortured and put to death by the Turks, 74

Bragadino, Ambrogio and Antonio, Venetian captains at Lepanto, 92

British Navy: in Middle Ages, _see_ chap. IV., Sluys, 55;
in Tudor period, _see_ chap. VI., the Armada, 105;
in Stuart period, _see_ chap. VII., the battle off the Gunfleet, 142;
in the eighteenth century, _see_ chap. VIII., the Battle of the Saints'
Passage, 158;
in Nelson's time, _see_ chap. IX., Trafalgar, 173

Brunel, 208

Buchanan, commodore, C.S.N., captain of the "Merrimac," 219, etc.

Byron, captain, under Rodney, 163

C

Caesa