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The War for All the Oceans

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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)

  Immortalité

 

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