Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-ShimaAtteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
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Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima
Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Naval battles
Antony, Mark, 25;
flight from Actium, 35;
death, 38
Antwerp, the great fire-ship of, 130
Aristides, 15;
at Salamis, 21
Armada of 1588, 105, etc.;
organisation and statistics, 111
Armour-clads, early: Erik Jarl's "Iron Beard," 49;
the "Finis Belli" (1585), 209;
floating batteries, 211
Armour-clads, first modern sea-going: the "Gloire" (French), 211;
the "Warrior" (British), 213
Artemisia of Halicarnassus, 11, 15;
at Salamis, 21;
at the council after the battle, 22
Athens, beginnings of its sea-power, 4;
occupied by the Persians, 7
Augustus, 25;
founder of the Roman Empire, 38;
naval policy, 39
B
Bahuchet, French admiral, 61
Baltic Fleet organised by Russia for the Far East, 304;
voyage of, 306;
Dogger Bank incident, 307;
passes Malacca, 309
Barbarigo, Agostino, Venetian admiral, 80, 92;
killed at Lepanto, 103
Barbavera, Genoese admiral at Sluys, 61;
his escape after the battle, 65
Bertendona, admiral of the Levant squadron of the Armada, 112
Bingham, Queen Elizabeth's Governor of Connaught, 138, etc.
Blackwood, captain of Nelson's look-out frigate "Euryalus," 181, 186,
188, 191
Blake, 143, 144
Bragadino, Venetian commandant of Famagusta, 73;
tortured and put to death by the Turks, 74
Bragadino, Ambrogio and Antonio, Venetian captains at Lepanto, 92
British Navy: in Middle Ages, _see_ chap. IV., Sluys, 55;
in Tudor period, _see_ chap. VI., the Armada, 105;
in Stuart period, _see_ chap. VII., the battle off the Gunfleet, 142;
in the eighteenth century, _see_ chap. VIII., the Battle of the Saints'
Passage, 158;
in Nelson's time, _see_ chap. IX., Trafalgar, 173
Brunel, 208
Buchanan, commodore, C.S.N., captain of the "Merrimac," 219, etc.
Byron, captain, under Rodney, 163
C
Cæsar, Julius, 25
Calais, importance to England, 55
Calder, Sir Robert, action off Finisterre, 177
Cardona, Juan de, Spanish admiral, 80
Cervantes, Miguel de (author of "Don Quixote"), at Lepanto, 82;
wounded, 99
Cervera, Spanish admiral, 280;
voyage to Cuba, 282, etc.;
goes out of Santiago to battle, 287;
taken prisoner, 293
Charlemagne and the Norsemen, 41
Chatham, Dutch raid on, 156, 157
Churucca, Commodore, at Trafalgar, 200, 201
Cinque Ports, 57, 58
Cisneros, Spanish rear-admiral at Trafalgar, 197, 198
Cleopatra, 25;
flight from Actium, 35;
death, 38
Clerk of Eldin, his naval theories, 168
Collingwood, 179, 180, 183;
breaks through French line at Trafalgar, 192;
takes command of fleet after Nelson's death, 204
Colonna, Marco Antonio, Papal admiral, 71, 76;
at Lepanto, 99
Cromwell, 143
Cyprus, Turkish invasion of, under Selim II, 70;
fall of Nicosia, 71;
siege of Famagusta, 71, 73
D
Damme, naval victory at, 56
Darius, 4
Decrès, Admiral, Minister of Marine under Napoleon I, 178, 180
Dewa, Admiral, 323, 331
Dewey, Admiral, 280
Doria, Giovanni Andrea, Genoese admiral, 80;
at Lepanto, 99, etc.
Douglas, Sir Charles, share in Rodney's victory, 167-9
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