The authorities for the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are numerous. An English writer will naturally give the first place in the list to _The Naval History of Great Britain_, by William James, a trustworthy, laborious, and indispensable, but dry and too often unintelligent chronicle, which covers the whole story from 1793 to 1815. The _Naval Chronology_ of Isaac Schomberg ends at the Peace of 1801. Captain Mahan’s _Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire_ is a survey of the principles rather than the mere events of the whole war. On the French side we have Troude, _Batailles navales de la France_, the chronology quoted for earlier chapters; Chevalier, _Histoire de la Marine française sous la première République_, a history up to 1799; Rouvier, _Marins français sous la République_; Moulin, _Les Marins de la République_; Lecène, _Marins de la République et de l’Empire_. The _Naval Chronicle_ (1799-1818) did not begin with the war, but it looks back on events antecedent to its own beginning. Brenton’s _Naval History of Great Britain from 1783 to 1836_, first published in 1823 and recast in 1837, professes to be a general history, but is chiefly valuable for the writer’s personal reminiscences and the traditions of the service which he repeats. An excellent study of one of the most important episodes of the early years of the war is Cottin, _Toulon et les Anglais en 1793_. For the battle of the 1st of June the main authority now is Rear-Admiral Sturges Jackson’s _Logs of the Great Sea Fights 1794-1805_, edited for the Navy Record Society. Sir N. H. Nicholas’ _Letters and Despatches of Lord Nelson_ is a mine of information from the operations at Toulon till 1805. Biographies of officers first become abundant at this period. Those which are of most value for the opening stage of the war are:—Burrows’ _Howe_, Ross’s _Saumarez_, Osler’s _Exmouth_, Tucker’s _St. Vincent_, Lady Bourchier’s _Codrington_; and for the operations in the West Indies, Collier Willyams’ special work on the subject, which is the basis of the account given by Bryan Edwards in his _History of the West Indies_.