by Roy Adkins
Alexander (convict transport ship)
Alexander (warship); and Battle of the Nile
Alexander , Tsar of Russia
Alexander the Great
Alexandre
Alexandria, Egypt: attacked by French ; British blockade
Alexandria, USA
Alfred
Algeciras (and battles of)
Algiers
Allemand, Zacharie-Jacques-Théodore
Allen, William Henry
Alresford, Hampshire
Amager (Isle of Amack)
Amazon
Amboyna (Ambon), East Indies
America see United States of America
American War of Independence
Amiens, Peace of ()
Amphion ; in Adriatic
Amphitrite
Ancona, Italy
Annapolis, USA
Annual Register
Anson, shipwreck of
Antelope
Antwerp, Austrian Netherlands (Belgium) ; British failure to implement attack
Aquilon (in Basque Roads action)
Aquilon (in Battle of the Nile)
Arachne
Arbuthnot, Charles
Argo
Argus
Arish see El Arish
Army, American: at Baltimore; at New Orleans
Army, British: at Cape of Good Hope ; in Denmark; inexperience and recruitment; public image improves; retreat from Spain ; Scheldt operation and attack on Flushing; South Beveland and Walcheren malaria disaster: in US war; and Waterloo
Army, French: in Egypt and Syria ; in Italy ; as prisoners; in Spain ; and Waterloo
Ashworth, Henry
Astorga, Spain
Atalante
Audacious
Austen, Charles
Austen, Francis
Austen, Jane
Austria: conflict with French ; English prisoners escape to; Napoleon’s marriage alliance with; treaty with France; see also Vienna, Congress of
Backhouse, George
Baird, David
Baird, John
Ball, Alexander
Baltic region; see also Denmark; Sweden
Baltimore, USA
Banda Neira, East Indies
Barbados
Barcelona, Spain
Barklimore, Archibald
Barney, Joshua
Barracouta
Barras, Paul
Barrett, Robert
Barron, James
Basque Roads; chart
Batley, Mr (dragoon officer)
‘battleships’ (definition)
Batz, fortress of
Bavay, France
Beane, William
Beasley, Reuben
Beauharnais, Josephine see Bonaparte, Josephine
Beckwith, George
Bedouin
Beer, Devon
Belle Poule
Bellerophon
Bellete
Bellona (British ship)
Bellona (French ship)
Belvidera
Benedict, USA
Beresford, John
Beresford, William Carr
Berkeley, George
Bermuda
Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste
Berry, Edward
Berwick
Betancos Bay
Bingham, Arthur Batt
Bitche prison
Bladensburg, Battle of
Blake
Blakeney, Robert
Blankenberge
Blenheim
Bligh, John
blockades, British: of America; as effective strategy; of Egypt ; of European ports; of France ; of Holland; of Malta ; of Spain ; tedium of
Bluett, John Courtney
Bolton, Susanna
Bolton, William
bomb vessels; see also explosion vessels
Bonaparte, Joseph, King of Spain
Bonaparte, Josephine
Bonaparte, Louis
Bonaparte, Lucien
Bonaparte, Marie-Louise
Bonaparte, Napoleon see Napoleon
Boniface, Antoine
Bonnefoux, Pierre-Marie-Josephe de
Borgne, Lake
Boston, USA
Boulogne, France: French flotilla prepared for invasion (under harassment from British) ; minimal success of British attacks on
Bourbon monarchy; see also Louis
Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de: on Egypt expedition; on Kléber; on Napoleon’s irritation with Directory; on Peace of Amiens; on siege of Acre, and retreat; on Smith’s escape; on Tsar Paul
Bowerman, John
Bowers, William
Bowyer, William
Boyer de Peireleau, Eugène-Edmond
Boys, Edward
Brenton, Edward
Brenton, Jahleel
Brest, France: blockade of; French fleet escapes from ; shipwrecked sailors captured in
‘brig’ (definition)
Britain: alliance with Austria; American privateers in waters of; attitude to Spanish treasure ships; attitudes to Napoleon; and Baltic crisis; declares war on France (); dependence on navy; economic problems and unrest; effect of Peace of Amiens; French plans to invade; friction with USA ; harassment of French flotilla; intelligence-gathering; power increased by Napoleonic Wars; reactions topeace; reactions to Trafalgar; repeal of Orders-in-Council ; severe winter; trade ; war with America ; see also army, British; blockades, British; navy, British; prison and prisoners in Britain; Secret Service, British
British Neptune, The (newspaper)
Brixham, Devon
Brock, Isaac
Broke, Philip Bowes
Bromley, John
Brooke, Arthur
Brueys ’Aigalliers, François-Paul; and
Battle of the Nile
Brunswick (East Indiaman)
Brunswick (hulk)
Bryan, Daniel
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buller, Edward
Buoy Boat of Portsmouth
Burdett, Francis
Burial of Drowned Persons Act ()
Burney, Fanny
Burns, Robert
Byron, Lord
Cadiz, Spain
Cadoudal, Georges
Cadsand, United Provinces (Holland)
Caesar: in Basque Roads action; preparations for Scheldt expedition ; Princess Caroline visits ; in Scheldt action
Cagliari, Sardinia
Cairo, Egypt
Calais, France
Calcutta
Calcutta Gazette
Calder, Robert
Caledonia
Campbell, Neil
Camperdown, Battle of
Canada
Canet de Mar, Spain
Canning, George
Cape of Good Hope ; map
Cape St Vincent, Battle of
Cape Town
Caracciolo, Francesco
‘carcasses’ see torpedoes
Carden, John
Carmen
Carolina
Caroline
Caroline, Princess of Wales
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount
caulking
Centaur
Cerberus
Ceylon
Chads, Henry
Chambers, Charles
charts, inadequacy of
‘chasse-marée’
Chatham, John Pitt, Earl of: in charge of Scheldt expedition ; criticised for delays preventing attack on Antwerp
Chatham, Kent; hulks
Chesapeake: attacked by Leopard ; prepared for war and blockaded at Boston ; Shannon challenges and defeats ; taken for service in Royal Navy; timbers used in buildings
Chesapeake Bay; map
Chesapeake Mill, Wickham
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
children: on board ship; in disasters at sea ; in retreat from Spain
Chile
China
Choyce, James
Close, James
Clover, Ro
bert Stafford
Cobbett, William
Cochrane, Alexander ; and attack on Baltimore ; and attack on New Orleans
Cochrane, Archibald
Cochrane, Thomas: reputation ; Nelson’s advice to; given charge of Généreux ; captures Gamo (as captain of Speedy) ; captured (with Speedy) at Algeciras, rescued and acquitted at court-martial ; witnesses Straits of Gibraltar battle; promoted but makes enemy of St Vincent; successes with Pallas in Atlantic; and Imperieuse engagement with British privateer; successes with Imperieuse on Mediterranean coasts of Spain and France ; character and qualities; Admiralty’s attitude to; takes charge of fireship attack in Basque Roads ; receives honours; opposes vote of thanks to Gambier; denied role at Walcheren; wrongly convicted of fraud; career in South America, and plans for Napoleon to rule there; marriage; returns to navy ; death
Cockburn, George; in attack on Washington; in subsequent attack on Baltimore
Codrington, Edward: in American war ; and assault on New Orleans ; and attack on Flushing; on disease at Walcheren; on failure to attack Antwerp
Codrington, Jane
Cole, Christopher
Collingwood, Cuthbert
colours, striking the
Columbia
commodore, rank of
communications
Congreve, William
Constantinople, Turkey
Constellation
Constitution
Continental System
convoys, protection of
Cooper, John Spencer
Coote, Eyre
Copenhagen, Denmark; battle of (); plan; siege of (); see also Denmark
Copenhagen (horse)
Corfu
Cornwall: shipwrecks
Cornwallis, William
Corona
Corsica
Corunna; British retreat
Corunna, Battle of
Cotton, Charles
court martials
Cousland, Scotland
Crawford, Abraham: on Napoleon’s flotilla preparations and subsequent British action ; on situation after Trafalgar; on Turkish expedition; on violent impressment incident
Cressy
Croker, John
Cronborg Castle, Denmark
Crown (hulk)
Crowninshield, George
Cullen, Peter
Cullen Brown, W. Culloden
Cunard Line
Curtis, Roger
Curtis, William
‘cutting out’
Dacres, James
Daendels, Herman Willem
Danaë
Darby, Henry
Dardanelles
Dartmoor Prison
Dash
Daubeny, Edward
Deal, Kent
Decatur, Stephen
Decrès, Denis
Defence
Denmark; British action to prevent Napoleon gaining control; prisoners-of-war from; see also Copenhagen
Dennis, John
Derikre, Madame
Desaix
deserters
Desvernois, Nicolas-Philibert détenus ; see also Verdun
Devonshire
Diadem
Diamond Rock
Diligence
Dillon, William Henry: asked to work for Impress Service; on blockade duty in Africaine ; on French reaction to Trafalgar; imprisonment in Verdun ; made acting-captain of Aigle ; on Napoleon’s imprisonment of British in France; observes attack on Flushing
disease; see also malaria; plague
Djezzar the Cutter
‘doldrums’
Dominica
Don, George
Donaldson, John
Douglas, Howard
Dover, Kent
Downs, The
Drosier, John
Drury, William O’Brien
Du Chayla, Armand-Simon-Marie, Chevalier de Blanquet
Dubourdieu, Bernard
Duckworth, John
Duhesme, Philibert-Guillaume
Dundas, George Heneage
Dundas, Henry see Melville, Henry Dundas, Admiral
Dupetit-Thouars, Aristide Aubert
Dupin, Pierre-Charles-François
Durand, James
Dyott, William
East India Company
East Indiamen
East Indies
Easton Massacre
Edgar
Edinburgh, Scotland
Egypt: avoidance of British fleet by French expedition to; battle for Alexandria; British blockade ; conditions for army inland; El Arish besieged; French retreat to (after Acre); Napoleon’s departure and Kléber’s defence ; withdrawal by French and peace treaty; see also Nile, Battle of the
El Arish, Egypt
Elba
Elephant
Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Earl of
Elliot, George
Elsinore, Denmark
Embargo Act (USA)
Endymion
Enghien, Louis-Antoine-Henri, Duke ’
English Channel
Éole
equator
Essel, John
Essex
Euryalus
Evelyn, John
explosion vessels; see also bomb vessels
Falmouth, Cornwall
Farington, Joseph
Fatima (servant)
Favorite (frigate)
Favorite (sloop)
Favourite (sloop)
Ferdinand , King of Naples (later
Ferdinand , King of the Two Sicilies)
Ferdinand , King of Spain
Fernyhough, Robert
Ferrol, Spain
Finlayson, John
fire: on Ajax ; caused by lightning; on Orient ; on Queen Charlotte ; sailors’ fear of
fireships; used in Basque Roads
‘fleet’ (definition)
Flore
Florida, USA
Flushing, United Provinces (Holland): British attack planned; British destruction of ; panorama of; smuggling connections
Foley, Thomas
Fontainebleau, France
food: preservation of fresh meat; prices in Britain; problem of supplies; rats as
Foote, Charles
Foreign Office
Fort Bowyer, USA; map
Fort Diamond see Diamond Rock
Fort McHenry, Baltimore
Fort Trinidad, Rosas
Fortuna
Foudroyant
France: attempt to restore monarchy; attitude to America; British blockades of ; British visitors in ; conditions in; Consulate; Convention; Directory; effect of Cochrane’s raids on; fortresses; invasion plans; map of northern coast ; Napoleon’s fall and return of monarchy (); Napoleon’s return to; after Peace of Amiens; post-war circumstances of soldiers and sailors; trade; semaphores destroyed ; treaty with Austria; war with Spain; see also Army, French; Bourbon monarchy; Napoleon ; prisons and prisoners in France; Royalists, French
Franklin
Franz , Emperor of Austria
Free Men of Color battalion
Fréjus, France
Fremantle, Thomas
French Guiana
French Revolution
Frere, John
Friedland, Battle of
frigates: role in battles
Fulton, Robert
Furieuse
Galgo
galleons, Spanish
galleys
Gambier, James: in Basque Roads ; at Copenhagen; criticisms of, and court martial; failure of Brest blockade blamed on
Gamo XXII-XXVI
Ganges
Ganteaume, Honoré-Joseph-Antoine
Gardner, Alan Hyde
Garneray, Louis
Généreux
Génie
George , King of Great Britain
George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent)
Gerona, Spain
Ghent, Treaty of
Gibraltar
Gicquel des Touches, Pierre-Guillaume
Gill, Thomas
Gillingham, Kent
Givet prison
Gleig, George Robert ; on attack on Baltimore; on attack on New Orleans
‘Glorious First of June’
Goliath: in Battle of the Nile ; refitted; struck by lightning
Gordon, Charles
Gordon, James Alexander
Graham, John
Grasshopper
Gravina, Federico Carlos
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Grenoble, France
Grey, Charles
Grindall, Richard
Grosvenor, Thomas
Guadeloupe; map
Guéret
Guerrier
Guerriere
Guillaume Tell
‘gun shot’ (definition)
gunnery training
Gustavus , King of Sweden
Guyana
Habeas Corpus
Haifa (Caifa), Syria
Haiti; see also Saint Domingue
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
Halifax
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Hall, Basil
Hallowell, Benjamin
Hamilton, Emma: affair with Nelson ; background; birth of daughter; at celebrations of Nile victory ; death; provides eyeshades for Nelson; in storm on Foudroyant
Hamilton, Fatima Emma Charlotte Nelson
Hamilton, William
hammocks
Hampshire Courier
Hanchett, John Martin
Hannibal
Hanover, Germany
Happisburgh, Norfolk
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Harman, Captain see Moore, James
Harpy
Harris, John
Hart, John, Mike and Peter
Harvey, Eliab
Harwich, Essex
Hassell, George
Hawker, Edward
Hawkins, Michelmore
Hay, Robert
Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Hebrus Hermes
Hero
Hewson, Maurice
Hispaniola
Hoffman, Frederick
Holland: andpeace treaty military preparations; Baltic ships wrecked near; British action against ships of; British blockade of; and Cape of Good Hope; and East Indies; Smith’s intelligence from; under Louis Bonaparte; uprising against French
Holmes, Joshua
holystones
Home, George
homosexuality
Hood, Samuel, Admiral (t Viscount Hood of Whitley)
Hood, Samuel, Captain (later Rear-Admiral ): at Battle of the Nile ; in blockade of Alexandria; captures Diamond Rock; at Copenhagen; and evacuation of troops from Spain
Hood, Thomas
Hope, William Johnstone
Hopping, Ann and Edward
Hornet (American ship-sloop)
Hornet (wrecked ship)
Hoste, William
Howell, Thomas
Hughes, John
hulks, prison
Hull, Isaac
Hull, William
Hull, Yorkshire
Humphreys, Salusbury Pryce
Hunter, Robert
Hussar: Captain Wilkinson’s unpopularity ; impressment by; shipwreck and aftermath
Hutchinson, William
Iliad (Homer)
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