by Roy Adkins
Imperieuse
Impétueux
impressment; from American ships ; brutality and conditions; exemptions; of Jeffery ; legal guidelines; and merchant ships; in New Orleans; Nicol’s fear of; in north-east England; in Scotland ; suspension of protections; violent confrontations
India: Napoleon’s plans for ; power of East India Company; problems of journey to; Scandinavian colonies in; trade
Indians, American
Intrépide XXII
invasion plans (French): early; of Napoleon (preparation of flotilla)
Invincible
Iphigenia
Istanbul see Constantinople
Italy; Cochrane’s praise for troops of ; see also Naples; Sicily
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, George Vernon
Jaffa, Syria
Jamaican troops
James, William
James and Rebecca
Java (frigate, destroyed off Brazil)
Java (frigate, lost off Madagascar)
Java (new American frigate)
Java, East Indies
Jean Bart
Jefferson, Mr (surgeon)
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffery, Robert
Jeffrey, Francis
Johnson, Tom (‘the Smuggler’)
Junon
Junot, Jean
Keane, John
Keats, Richard
Keith, George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount: and end of Egypt campaign; and John Wright; in Mediterranean ; in North Sea; postpones Boulogne attack; sends dispatches to Dutch
Kenah, Richard
Key, Francis Scott
King, Andrew
King George
Kioge, Denmark
Kléber, Jean-Baptiste
Knight, Cornelia
knights, orders of
La Ciotat, France
la Porte, Jean de
lace industry
Lafitte, Jean
Lafitte, Pierre
Lafon, Jean
Lake, Warwick
Lambert, John
landing craft
‘langridge’ (definition)
Langton, Richard
Lano, William
‘larboard’ (definition)
Latouche-Tréville, Louis-René Levassor
Lawrence, James
‘league’ (definition)
League of Armed Neutrality
Leander XXII
Lebertre, Colonel
Leech, Samuel
Leghorn (Livorno), Italy
Leopard
Lichfield, Staffordshire
lightning strikes
Lille Belt see Little Belt
Linois, Charles Alexandre
Lisbon, Portugal; chart
Lissa
Little Belt
Little Dunham
Liverpool Mercury
Livorno see Leghorn
Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund
Loe Pool
London
London, England: impressment; riot ; severe winter
Lord Nelson
Louis , King of France
Louis , King of France
Louisiana
Louisiana, USA
Lovell, William Stanhope
Luddites
Ludlow, Augustus
Lydiard, Charles
Macedonian
McGrigor, James
Madison, Dolley
Madison, James; declares war on Britain; and
Embargo Act
magazines
Magnificent (warship, wrecked)
Magnificent (new warship, built)
MaGrath, George
Mailly, Captain
Maitland, Frederick
Majestic
malaria
Malcolm, Pulteney
Maldonada, South America
Malta; British
blockade of
Mamelukes
Mandarin
Mansell, William
Maples, John Fordyce
Marblehead, USA
Marengo
Marengo, Battle of
Maria Carolina, Queen of the Two Sicilies
marines
Markham, John
Marryat, Frederick
Mars
Marsden, William
Marseilles, France
Martin, Daniel
Martin, Jean
Martinique; Diamond Rock
‘master and commander’ (definition) XXIn
Mataró, Spain
Matcham, Kate and George
Maurice, James
Mauritius
Meade, John
Mediator
Mediterranean: British control after Battle of the Nile; Collingwood and; Napoleon avoids British ships in ; Nelson and; packet ships; privateers; Russia agrees to vacate; slave trade; Smith and
Medway see Chatham
Melampus
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount
Menou, Jacques Abdallah
merchant ships: American; in Baltic ; protection of convoys of; vulnerable to press-gangs
Micheroux, Chevalier
Middelburg, United Provinces (Holland)
Millard, William
Millbay Prison, Plymouth
Miller, Ralph
Minerve
mining
Minorca
Minotaur
Missiessy, Edouard-Thomas de
Mitchell, John
Mobile, USA
Moitier, Monsieur (lawyer)
Moluccan Islands
Monarch
Mongat Castle, Spain
Monnet, Louis-Claude
Montevideo
Montholon, Charles Tristan
Montserrat
Moore, Graham
Moore, James
Moore, John
Moreau, Victor
Morning Chronicle
Mosse, James Robert
Mould, Richard
Mount’s Bay, Cornwall
Murat, Joachim, King of Naples
Mutine
Myrmidon
Napier, Charles
Naples
Napoleon (Napoleon Bonaparte): lack of success at sea ; and Smith ; at siege of Toulon ; attains promotions and celebrity in France; marriage to Josephine; conquers northern Italy and Papal States; Directory’s mistrust of; takes fleet to Egypt, avoiding British navy; seasickness; includes scholars in expedition; impatience; conquest of Alexandra; receives news of Nile defeat; stranded in Egypt; Egyptian and Syrian campaign (El Arish and Acre) ; hampered by lack of information; and Royalists; and propaganda; leaves Egypt; relationship with Kléber; siezes power in France; manipulates Tsar Paul ; assassination plots against; peace treaty with Britain (); political skills; reaction to Britain’s declaration of war (); reintroduces slavery ; and West Indies; prepares to invade England and assembles flotilla ; crowned emperor; criticism of Villeneuve; effect of Trafalgar on; denies involvement in Wright’s death; success in Europe ; informality with seamen; attempts to inhibit British trade; treaty with Russia; reaction to Spanish uprising; on Cochrane; attitude to prisoners-of-war; enters Spain; returns to France; criticises Gambier ; relations with Austria; importance of Scheldt to; on surrender of Flushing; on British strategy in Scheldt; on British treatment of prisoners; losses in colonies; importance of Adriatic to ; war with Russia; diplomacy with America; defeated and exiled in Elba ; activities on Elba and escape ; arrival in France; attempts to make peace; fate of carriage of; surrender after Waterloo ; on Britain’s maritime power; as prisoner on the Bellerophon ; exiled in St Helena; rescue plots; death; effect of ambitions on Britain
Narcissus
Nash, John
National Intelligencer
Nautilus (American ship)
Nautilus (submarine)
Naval Chronicle
Neirinks, Auguste Crens
Nelson, Frances
Nelson, Horatia
Nelson, Horatio: pursues Napoleon to Egyp
t ; seasickness; leadership abilities; impatience ; at Battle of the Nile; wounds; receives honours; horror of Frenchmen; in Naples ; meets Emma Hamilton; international fame; compared to Smith; relationship with Smith; affair with Emma ; post-Nile concerns; and Mediterranean operations, ; in Palermo ; advice to Cochrane; relationship with Keith -health; on change in naval warfare; and blockade of Malta; returns to England but eager for new assignment ; Baltic expedition and friction with Parker; birth of daughter; on British navy; at Battle of Copenhagen; ‘blind eye’ incident ; pursues Villeneuve to West Indies ; British confidence in; view of slavery; regard for Dr MaGrath; Battle of Trafalgar and death
neutrality; see also League of Armed Neutrality
Neuville, Hyde de
New England, USA
New Orleans, USA: attacked by British ; battle of; French troops evacuated to; maps
New York
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
Nicol, John: on Battle of the Nile ; circumstances after war; fear of press-gangs; reaction to Trafalgar
Nile, Battle of the; casualties ; celebrations in Naples; plan; post-battle capture of escaped ships ; salvage operation; women in
Norfolk, England
Norfolk, USA
Norman Cross
North Sea
North Shields, Tyneside
Northumberland
Nottingham, England
Nottingham, USA
O’Brien, Donat Henchy: captured after wreck of Hussar ; escape from Bitche; as lieutenant on Amphion in Adriatic; revisits wartime sites
Ocean
officers: effect of peace treaty on; French ranks; importance of individual commanders ; memoirs; paternalism and chivalry; respect between enemies; retirement and finances
Oldfield, Thomas
O’Meara, Barry
Orient
Orion
Osten, Pierre-Jacques
Ostend, Austrian Netherlands (Belgium)
Ottoman Empire; Turkish navy ; Turkish troops ; see also Turkey
Otway, Robert
Owen, Edward
packet ships
Pactolus
Paget, Henry William
Pakenham, Edward
Palermo, Sicily
Pallas
Pallière, Christie
Palmer, Benjamin
Papal States
Paris, France: British visitors in; fall of ; Napoleon’s return to; Smith settles in; see also Temple prison
Parker, Hyde (admiral): background; and beginning of Copenhagen campaign ; friction with Nelson; signal to leave off action causes confusion and criticism
Parker, Hyde (captain, son of admiral)
parole
Parsons, George
Partridge
passengers, civilian
Patapsco River
Patriote
Patuxent River
Paul, Tsar of Russia
Peacock
Peake, William
Peel, Dolly and Ralph
Pelican
Pellew, Edward
Peninsular War ; British retreat
Pensacola, USA
Perriam, Nancy see Hopping, Ann
Peter the Smuggler
Peterborough, England
Peuple Souverain
Phélippeaux, Louis-Edmond le Picard
Pichegru, Jean-Charles
Piedmontaise
Pierce, Nathaniel
Pillet, René-Martin
pilots
Pinckard, George
pirates
‘pistol shot’ (definition)
Pitt, John see Chatham, John Pitt, Earl of
Pitt, William, the Younger
plague
Plate, River; chart
Pluton
Plymouth, Devon: American prisoners in ; arrival of evacuated troops; forgery; hardships of sailors’ wives; hulks; Millbay Prison ; Napoleon arrives in Bellerophon ; press-gangs; prostitutes; St Andrew’s churchyard; ships fitted out in
Pole, William Wellesley
Polperro, Cornwall
Polyphemus
Pompee
Popham, Home Riggs; at Cape of Good Hope; and River Plate fiasco; and Scheldt operation
Port Mahon, Minorca
Port St George, Lissa
Port Vendres, France
Portchester Castle
Portland, Dorset
Portsmouth, Hampshire: George Inn; hardships of women in; hulks ; preparations for Scheldt operation ; press-gangs; prostitutes; timber from Chesapeake used in buildings
Portugal
Potomac River
Poussielgue, Émile
‘powder monkeys’
President
press
press-gangs see impressment
Prigny de Quérieux, Mathieu-Anne-Louis
Principo Real
Pringle, John
prisoners, exchanges of
prisoners in USA
prisons and prisoners in Britain; Americans; depots (land prisons); escapes ; forgery; hulks; mortality; parole; released; straw work; see also Dartmoor Prison; Millbay Prison
prisons and prisoners in France; escapes; financial hardships ; parole; see also Bitche; Givet; Temple; Valenciennes; Verdun
privateers: American; Buoy Boat of Portsmouth ; in Indian Ocean; in Mediterranean; in West Indies
prize money
proas
Prometheus
propaganda
Proserpine
prostitutes
Prothee (hulk)
Prussia
punishments: naval ; for poaching; of prisoners in France
‘quarterdeck’ (definition)
Queen Charlotte
Quiberon Bay, France
quinine
Raisonable
Ramakins
Ramillies
Ratford, Jenkin
rating system
rats
Rattenbury, Jack
Raven
Real Carlos
Recruit
Regency period
Renny, Robert
Repulse
Resistance
Revenge
Reynolds, Robert Carthew
Richardson, William: in Basque Roads action ; on Princess Caroline’s visit ; in Scheldt action
Riou, Edward
‘roads’ (definition)
Robben Island
Robinson, Henry Crabb
Robinson, James
Robinson, William: in Basque Roads action ; on conditions for pressed men ; in Flushing attack ; on prostitutes
Rochefort, France; see also Basque Roads
rockets; used in action ; used for celebration
Rodgers, John
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosas, Spain
Ross, Robert; advised against Baltimore attack; killed near Baltimore
Ross-Lewin, Harry
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Royal George
Royal Oak
Royal Sovereign
Royalists, French: at Acre; British Secret Service and; Napoleon and; and restoration of monarchy; Smith and
Ruffo, Fabrice
Rush, Richard
Russell
Russia: defeat by Napoleon and Treaty of Tilsit ; defeats Turks; fleet takes refuge in Lisbon and Trieste ; and League of Armed Neutrality ; Smith advised to form alliance with; war with France
sailors see seamen
St Aubin, Monsieur (French official)
St Cyr, Laurent Gouvion
Saint Domingue; see also Haiti
St Domingo
St George
St Helena
St Kitts
St Lucia
St Vincent, John Jervis, Earl
St Vincent, Battle of see Cape St Vincent, Battle of Salem, USA
Samarang
San Antonio
San Domingo, Battle of
San Hermenegildo
San Pietro
San Rafa
el
Saumarez, James; at Battle of the Nile
Scheldt, River; assault on Flushing; disease devastates British troops; failure to implement attack on Antwerp
Schönbrunn, Treaty of
scholarship, French
Scott, James
Scott, Walter
sea-fencibles
Seahorse
seamen: age; circumstances after service; grievances and privileges ; hammock-space; lack of gunnery training; punishments ; rating system ; reactions to battle; volunteers ; see also impressment
Seapatch, John
Secret Service, British ; see also Smith (William) Sidney; Wright, John Wesley
Sein, Île de
Selby, William
Selim , Ottoman sultan
semaphores, French
Seniavin, Dmitri
Seram, East Indies
Sérieuse
Seton, James
Severn
Shannon
Sherwood, Mary
Shetland Isles
‘ships of the line’ (definition)
shipwrecks: Anson ; Baltic disaster ; burial of victims; Hussar
Shortland, Thomas George
Sicily
signals; in Battle of Copenhagen ; French semaphores
Silk Road
Simond, Louis
Skinner, John
‘slaughterhouse’ (definition)
slavery; in Mediterranean
‘sloop’ (definition)
Smart, John
Smith, Caroline
Smith, George Sidney
Smith, Harry
Smith, John Spencer
Smith (William) Sidney: background; imprisonment in Temple and escape ; as spymaster; ‘prophecy’ of ; and siege of Toulon; sent to Constantinople;
Smith (William) Sidney - continued compared to Nelson; relationship with Nelson; and blockade of Alexandria; and siege of Acre; works with French Royalists; French attempts to assassinate; skill at propaganda; letter to Napoleon; receives honours; and French retreat from Acre; and Aboukir Bay defeat; negotiates with French; relieved of Mediterranean command; carries dispatches but delayed on journey back to Britain; eats rats; flamboyance; patrols and gathers intelligence from northern France and Holland; lover of Princess Caroline -health; designs landing craft; presses for attack on Boulogne ; raises funds for Trafalgar victims; as commander of Antelope ; and Wright’s death; given subordinate role in Turkish expedition; and blockade of Portugal; South American command; Hoste serves under; on public image of navy; promotion and marriage; on continued danger from Napoleon; campaign against slave trade ; at Waterloo and after; old age and death
smoking
smugglers
Soleil, Éléonore-Jean-Nicolas
Sombrero
songs
Sooloo Sea see Sulu Sea
Soult, Nicolas Jean de Dieu
Sound, The; chart
South America
South Beveland, United Provinces (Holland) ; malaria on; retreat from
South Shields, Tyneside
Spain: andtreaty; in Algeciras defeat ; British blockades; British retreat from; Cochrane’s operations on coast of ; colonies of; declares war after treasure ships attacked (); Gamo captured by British ; neutral status ; threat from; uprising and imposition of Joseph Bonaparte; war with France; see also Ferdinand ; Peninsular War