248, 313;
significance of the wars from 1739 to 1783, 254;
Dutch, 67-69, 95-99, 108, 109, 126, 174, 201-204, 217, 218, 222, 406;
English, 59-67, 78, 100, 101, 105, 107, 131, 140, 143, 174, 175,
192-196, 201-204, 206, 224, 225, 229, 238-241, 244, 245, 264, 293,
326-328, 406, 417, 442, 451, 452, 505, 540;
French, 29, 54, 69-81, 93, 104, 105-107, 166, 167-170, 177, 187,
197, 199, 212, 226, 238, 242-244, 252, 282, 287-290, 291, 309, 311,
322, 331-334, 337, 340, 359, 382, 408 (and note), 451, 452, 459,
460, 506, 510, 511;
maritime inscription, 45;
Leibnitz's proposition to Louis XIV., 141, 142;
Italian, 39, 40;
Spanish, 41, 51, 94, 156, 246, 312, 333, 348, 401, 407, 510, 517
(note), 535, 536;
United States, 26, 33, 34, 38, 39, 42, 49, 83-88, 325, 326, 539, 540
(note).

_Naval Tactics_,
unsettled condition of modern, 2;
qualities of galleys, steamers, and sailing-ships, 3-5;
windward and leeward positions, 6,
change of, from age to age, 9, 10, 22, 130, 506;
fireships, 109, 110, 113, 114;
torpedo-cruisers, 111;
group formation, 112;
close-hauled line-of-battle, 115;
breaking the line, 124, 147, 265, 268, 286, 380, 381, 488, 491;
refusing the van, 148, 152, 157, 183, 190, 266, 432, 434;
concentration by defiling, 308, 387, 470, 492;
concentration by doubling, 125, 147, 183, 272, 378, 379, 432, 433,
438-441;
general chase with _melee_, 3, 4, 184, 237, 271, 299, 302, 303,
367-369, 404, 481, 482, 486;
French, in eighteenth century, 79, 80, 114, 163, 164, 287-290, 338,
340, 351, 372, 383, 425, 426, 431, 474 (and note), 476, 478, 482,
483, 486-488, 494, 538;
English, in eighteenth century, 127-129, 163, 211, 237, 265, 268,
271, 286, 287, 299, 303, 307, 350, 352, 369, 377-381, 386, 389,
391, 404, 412, 442, 447, 449, 453-455, 462, 463, 470-473, 476 (and
note), 486-490;
Monk's, 121;
Ruyter's, 145, 147, 148, 152, 154, 157, 161;
Duquesne's, 161-163, 165;
Herbert's, 182;
Tourville's, 182, 184, 185, 187, 189;
Rooke's, 211;
Byng's, 286;
Hawke's, 271, 272, 303;
Keppel's and D'Orvilliers, 351;
Barrington's, 366;
Byron's, 367-369;
D'Estaing's, 369, 370;
Rodney's, 377-379, 404, 488, 491;
De Grasse's, 383, 389, 471-474, 481-483, 485-489;
Arbuthnot and Destouches's, 386;
Graves's, 389, 391;
Suffren's, 425, 426, 432, 433, 439, 455, 465;
Hood's, 472, 473;
Clerk's work on, 77, 163, 211;
Hoste's wo