Champions of the fleet : $b Captains and men-of-war and days that helped to make the empireFraser, Edward
History
Champions of the fleet : $b Captains and men-of-war and days that helped to make the empire
Fraser, Edward
Great Britain -- History, Naval; Naval battles -- Great Britain
Men and Manners in 1758, 175-7
“Men of Kent and Kentish Men,” 52-5
Militia Camps, 37
Minden, 186
Minorca, 21, 86, 165, 168
Mir Jafier, 121, 122
Monument to Admiral Watson, 123, 124
“Moors,” 92
Moorshedabad, 87, 105
Morbihan, 142
“Mother of the Maids,” 20
Musée de Marine, 36
Murray, Geo., Captain, 223
Naming of the _Dreadnought_, 1, 4, 5, 14-18
Naming of the _Kent_, 71
” ” _Victory_, 184-6
Naval Estimates of 1759, 179, 182
Nawab, Vizier of Bengal, 79, 80, 87, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106
Nelson, 30, 33, 163, 177, 222-4, 245, 246, 247, 256, 258, 290
Nelson and the _Victory_, 222-3
” Monument, Portsdown, 218
Nelson’s “Dreadnought” sword, 34
Nelson’s “happiest day,” 33, 34
Nile, battle of, 62
Newfoundland “disturbance,” 187, 188
Nevis, 195, 204, 205
North Cape, 6
North Devon, 6
North-East Monsoon, 85
North Foreland, Battle off, 58, 67
North Sea Packets, 38
Northesk, Earl of, Admiral, 272
Officers of the _Britannia_ at Trafalgar, 282-8
Officers of the _Royal Sovereign_ at Trafalgar, 266, 267
Officers of the _Victory_ at Trafalgar, 226, 228
“Old Dreadnought,” 30, 127, 136
“Old Ironsides,” 272
Old London Bridge, 176
“Old Pretender,” the, 175
Old Single Dock, Chatham, 182
Omichand, 121
Opdam, Dutch Admiral, 28
Order to build the _Victory_, 181-2
Order naming the _Donegal_, 213
Orme, Indian historian, 119
Party Politics and the Navy, 35, 125
Passaro, Cape, Battle of, 29
Peasants of the Weald, 180
Pepys, Samuel, 19
Perreau, S., Lieut., 120
Pett, Phineas, 17, 59, 60
Pett, Peter, 2, 6
Philip II, King of Spain, 22, 23
Pigott, Governor, 81
Pitt, Lord Chatham, 139, 178
Plan of attack at Chandernagore, 112-13
Plassey, the sailors’ part at, 121-2
Pocock, Sir G., Admiral, 82, 111, 120
Pompadour, Madame de, 143, 156
Porchester Castle, 171
Portisham, Hardy’s birthplace, 225
Portland Bill, 23
Porto Bello, 171
Portsmouth in the Seven Years’ War, 161-77
“Port-pieces,” 12
Port Royal, 31
Prescott, General, 199
Presentation to H.M.S. _Kent_, 52-5
Presentation to H.M.S. _Donegal_, 220-1
Press-gang, working of, 169, 170, 233, 234
“Prencipall Master,” 6, 15, 17
Puritan method of naming the Navy, 28, 71-3
Quebec, 186
Quiberon Bay, 66, 142, 144, 148, 154, 156
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 27
Recalde, J. M. de, 23
Refugees from Calcutta, 80, 81, 86, 88
Regiments named—
1st Royals, 199
13th Foot, 193
15th Foot, 199
28th Foot, 193
39th Foot, 81, 88, 90
69th Foot, 193
Royal Artillery, 199
Relics of the Trafalgar _Dreadnought_, 41
Renault de St. Germain (Governor of Chandernagore), 103
Rescue of Spaniards after Trafalgar, 217, 218
Rivalry between the _Victory_ and _Royal Sovereign_ at Trafalgar, 251
Rochelle Expedition, 28
Rochfort, 155
Rodney, Sir G., Admiral, 65, 192, 200, 201, 202, 207
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