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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

 

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