seaports on which to base operations, 349, 429;
first battle with squadron of Sir Edward Hughes, 430-432;
tactics in the action, 432-435;
estimate of the strategic situation in India, 424, 433, 444, 445,
464, 466;
second battle with Hughes, 437-439;
tactics in it, 439-441;
strategic action, 443, 445, 446, 450-453, 458-460, 462-464, 466, 522;
military character, 445, 446, 450, 456, 465, 466;
third battle with Hughes, 446-448;
takes Trincomalee, 450;
activity of, 450, 451, 456, 462, 466;
fourth battle with Hughes, 453-456;
wreck of two of squadron, 457;
goes to Sumatra, 460;
returns to Trincomalee, 461;
relieves Cuddalore besieged by the English, 462;
fifth battle with Hughes, 463;
conclusion of peace, 464;
return to France, 465;
rewards, 465;
later career and death, 466.

_Tourville_, French Admiral,
commands at the battle of Beachy Head, 181;
sluggish pursuit of the enemy, 184;
military character, 185;
celebrated cruise in 1691, 187;
commands at battle of La Hougue, 189;
tactics and brilliant defence at La Hougue, 190;
destruction of French ships, 190;
supports the army in Catalonia, 193;
destroys or disperses a great English convoy, 194;
death, 210.

_Trafalgar_, Battle of,
final act of a strategic combination, 11, 23 (note);
tactics at, 12, 354, 459;
effects of, 47;
Nelson's position at, 353, 357;
Collingwood's action after Nelson's death, 358.

_Trincomalee_,
in Ceylon, Dutch influence in, 97;
passes into the hands of the English, 349, 428;
effect upon the contest in India, 349, 427 (note), 429, 430 (note),
433, 437, 442, 451, 453, 458, 462;
strategic value of, 428, 429, 436, 444, 451, 458, 518, 519, 520;
taken by Suffren, 450;
restored to Holland at peace of 1783, 540.

_Two Sicilies_, the,
acquired by Austria, 239;
foundation of Bourbon Kingdom of, 248;
forced by British fleet to withdraw troops from Spanish army, 264, 304.

_United Provinces._ See Holland.

_Vernon_, British Admiral,
takes Porto Bello, is repulsed from Cartagena and Santiago de Cuba, 261.

_Villeneuve_, French Admiral, Trafalgar,
campaign, 23, 24 (note), 525;
at the battle of the Nile, 80;
suicide, 403.

_Walpole_, Sir Robert,
prime minister of England, 239, 241;
peace policy of, 241, 243, 244;
naval demonstrations, 244;
struggle with the war party in England, 247, 249, 250;
neutrality causes Au