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INDEX
Aboukir (Aug 1800), 18
Abyssinia see Ethiopia
Acre, Palestine (Akko, Israel), 52, 71, 237
Aden, 16, 155
Adriatic, 37, 102, 177, 254
Aegean, 138, 151
Albania, 37, 51, 71, 118, 144, 237
Albert Victor, HRH Prince, 97, 171, 180, 250
Alcester, Lord see Seymour, Adm Sir Beauchamp
Alexander, A V, Lord Alexander of Hillsborough, First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Defence, 60, 64, 75
Alexandria, Egypt, 59–60, 85, 213, 247; (21 Mar 1801) 46, 165; bombardment of (11 Jul 1882), 80, 121, 172, 238, 266; landings (Aug 1882), 172, 180, 266
Alexandria, Virginia (Aug 1814), 102
Alfred Ernest Albert, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 9–11, 23, 179
Altmark Incident (1940), 246
American Civil War (1861–65), 72, 117, 119, 160, 175
American War of Independence (1775–83), 45, 73, 87, 92, 94, 105, 117, 124, 133, 165, 198, 201, 205, 211, 254, 256
American War of 1812 (1812–15), 19, 46, 49, 50, 96, 102, 110, 206, 230, 239, 249
Anglo-Boer South African War (1881), 221
Anglo-Boer South African War (1899–1902), 36, 57, 118, 172, 173, 202, 250, 261
Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy, 23, 65, 144, 162, 220, 254
Anson, Sir George, Lord Anson, 11–43, 87, 107, 109, 122, 132, 223
anti-piracy operations, 11, 19, 47, 51, 110, 123, 142, 177, 191, 199, 217, 222, 224, 228
anti-slave-trade operations, 19, 118–19, 175, 178
anti-smuggling operations, 11, 222
Antwerp, 191, 202
Anzac Cove, 251 see also Dardanelles; Gallipoli
Anzio landings (Jan- May 1944), 63
Aqaba, 31, 88
Arabi (‘Urbi) Pasha, 80, 121, 172, 180, 238, 266
Arctic, 63, 89, 105, 114, 156, 162, 169, 213, 218, 228, 242; (1941–44), 14
Argentina, 53, 78, 115–16, 124, 152, 159, 226, 235
armoured trains, 74, 80, 266
Ashanti Wars; second (1873–74), 54, 193; fourth (1896), 104
Ashmore, Sir Edward, 14–16, 22, 240
Asquith, Herbert, Prime Minister, 83, 84, 127, 130, 169–70, 269
Atbara, Sudan (8 Apr 1898), 23
Atlantic, battle of the (1940–44), 14, 56, 89, 154, 156, 217–18, 242
Atlantic Fleet, 20–21, 24, 27, 31–32, 37, 41–42, 55, 58–59, 63, 67, 75–76, 83, 85, 130, 137, 140–141, 153, 160, 164, 169, 181, 203, 215–216, 219, 232, 242, 250, 263
Attlee, Clement, Prime Minister, 64, 90, 263
Auckland, Lord see Eden, George, 1st Earl of Auckland
Augsburg, War of the League of, “King William’s War” (1689–97), 195, 199
Austen, Sir Francis, 16–19
Austrian Succession, War of the, 12, 45, 87, 107, 122, 197, 200, 205, 222, 235
Backhouse, Sir Roger, 20–21, 59, 217
Bahamas, 11, 16, 70, 94
Baldwin, Stanley, Prime Minister, 42, 70, 164
Balfour, Arthur J, Prime Minister, 81, 194; First Lord of the Admiralty, 127
Balkans, 31, 37, 63, 209, 264
Baltic, (Great Northern War)11, 44, 196, 199, 212; (French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars) 19, 29, 105, 167, 236; (Crimean War) 47, 52, 53, 79, 116, 142, 168, 170, 191, 224, 265; (First World War) 83, 114, 146; Baltic States, 93, 58, 133, 255
Baltimore, Maryland, 46, 50, 102
Barbados, 107, 122, 254, 257
Barfleur (May 1692), 195
Barham, Lord see Middleton, Adm Sir Charles
Basque Roads, 95, 230
Bathurst, Sir Benjamin, 22–23
batons, naval, 92, 259
Battenberg see Mountbatten, Louis Alexander
Battle-cruiser Fleet, 27, 31, 62, 130, 140, 146, 183, 219; Force, 20
Beachy Head (10 Jul 1690), 195
Beatty, Sir David, Earl Beatty, 4, 15, 23–27, 34–35, 41, 85, 130, 145, 164, 244, 252
Begg, Sir Varyl, 27–28
Beirut, 52, 118, 237
Belle-Ile, 46, 109, 205
Beresford, Adm Lord Charles, 34, 81 – 82, 120, 144, 172–74, 180–81, 218, 239, 250, 267, 268
Berlin, Congress of, 54, 79, 111, 144
Bermuda, 15, 49, 70, 163, 213
Biscay, Bay of, 108–09, 211, 266
Black Sea, 53, 104, 111, 142, 179, 194, 224, 227, 237, 241, 252
blockades, 17, 24, 37, 47, 48, 51, 57, 80, 119, 130, 159; Confederate States, 72, 160, 176; French Atlantic coast, 13, 19, 94, 95, 100, 102, 105, 108–9, 123, 125, 135, 136, 177, 207, 212, 230, 236, 255; French Mediterranean coast, 134, 177, 198, 211, 222, 254; Malta, 93, 101, 105, 165; Montevideo, 53, 116; Netherlands coast, 94, 105; Spanish coast, 18, 45, 102, 134, 166, 201
Boer War see Anglo-Boer South African War
Bonaparte see Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French
Borneo, 47, 110, 142, 191, 219 see also Brunei; Indonesia; Sarawak
Boscawen, Adm Edward, 123, 132
Boston, Massachusetts, 107, 124, 229, 249
Boulogne, 18, 70
Bowles, Sir William, 29 – 30
Boxer Rebellion (1900-01), 24, 38, 74, 129, 145, 228, 229
Boyle, Sir William, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery, 30–32, 217, 233
Brest, 95, 100, 108–09, 123, 125, 133, 136, 167, 177, 198, 207, 211, 236, 255
Bridgeman, Adm Sir Francis, 182, 269
Bridport, Viscount see Hood, Sir Alexander Bridport’s Action (23 Jun 1795), 101, 253 British Columbia, 104, 119, 125, 133, 211, 258,265
British Expeditionary Force, 26, 37, 56, 83, 148, 174, 217, 232, 269
British Guiana (Guyana), 16
British Honduras (Belize), 16
British Pacific Fleet, 15, 56, 61, 90–91, 138, 149, 154, 187, 210, 213, 247
Brock, Sir Osmond, 34–35, 164
Broke, Capt Philip, 249
Brooke, Rajah James, 142, 191
Brunei, 28, 47, 152, 191, 234 see also Borneo; Indonesia; Sarawak
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 225, 226
Burma War, second (1852), 17; third (1885–89), 221
Burney, Sir Cecil, 36–38
Byng, Vice-Adm John, 87, 108
Cadiz, 18, 29, 93, 102, 106, 134, 166, 196, 201, 226
Calabria (9 July 1940), 59, 242
Callaghan, Sir George, 20, 38–39, 130, 145, 158, 174
Calthorpe see Go
ugh-Calthorpe
Candia see Crete
Canton (29 December 1857), 142, 171, 227, 265
Canton (Guangzhou), 19, 71, 79, 142, 170, 208, 227
Cape Helles landings (Apr 1915), 251 see also Dardanelles; Gallipoli
captain’s servants (AFs joining the Navy as), 47, 64, 100, 105, 165, 167, 200, 206
Carden, Vice-Adm Sackville, 66, 146, 251
Carlist Wars, Spain, (1835–39), 142, 226
Carolinas, North America, 11, 205 see also North Carolina, South Carolina
Carrington, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty, 115, 139, 150
Chamberlain, Austen, First Lord of the Admiralty, 75, 76, 141
Chamberlain, Neville, Prime Minister, 21, 33, 43, 44, 86, 147, 217
Chanak crisis (1922), 35, 41, 58, 137, 140
Channel Fleet, 82, 83, 105, 170, 173, 181, 218, 228, 239, 267 see also squadrons, Channel
Charles, HRH Prince of Wales, 190
Charleston, South Carolina, 94, 198, 205, 213
Chatfield, Sir Ernie, Lord Chatfield, 25, 40–44
Cherbourg, 13, 102, 123
Cherimon River, 47
Chesapeake Bay, 46, 49, 124
Chile, 12, 45, 118, 121, 178
China Wars; first “Opium”(1839–42), 9, 46, 53, 110, 142, 208; second “Arrow” (1856–60), 54, 71, 79, 111, 116, 118, 142–43, 170, 220, 227, 265
Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, 169; Pacific, 234
Churchill, Winston Spencer, Prime Minister, 33, 44, 59–61, 86, 89–90, 99, 147–48, 162, 185–86, 189, 217–18, 233, 242, 247; First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–15), 24–25, 83–84, 127, 130, 145–46, 170, 174, 182–83, 202, 215, 239, 262, 269–70;(1939–40) 32–33 39, 44, 86, 48, 147, 217; Secretary of State for War, 252
Clanwilliam, 4th Earl of see Meade
Clarence, Dukes of see Albert Victor, HRH Prince; William IV, HM King
Clinton, General Sir Henry, 45, 205
Clinton, the Hon George, 44–45
Clyde, 41, 77
coastal artillery, 48, 91, 133, 159, 236, 266
Coastal Command, Royal Air Force, 148, 218
Cochrane, Adm Sir Alexander, 45–46, 49
Cochrane, Sir Thomas, 6, 45–47, 191
Cochrane, Adm Lord, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 45, 95–96, 208, 230, 236
Cockburn, Sir George, 3, 6, 46, 47–51, 93, 168, 259
Codrington, Adm Sir Edward, 51, 207, 259
Codrington, Sir Henry, 51–53, 224
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