The War for All the Oceans

by Roy Adkins

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  INDEX

  Note: page references in italics refer to maps or charts

  Abercromby, Ralph

  Aboukir Bay; see also Nile, Battle of the

  Achmet Pasha see Djezzar the Cutter

  Acre, Syria; French retreat from; map ; siege of

  Active

  Adams

  Admiralty: attitude to Cochrane; and blockade of European ports; conflict with Keith; gratitude for Smith’s action in Portugal; Nelson and; opposing objectives to Foreign Office; orders Rochefort attack; and Popham’s expedition; and retired officers; strategy in Scheldt

  Adriatic Sea

  Adye, John

  Aetna

  Africaine

  Agamemnon

  Aigle

  Aix Roads

  Ajax

  Alert