squadron sent to Besika Bay, augmented into a fleet, in imitation of the step taken in 1853?” BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD * * * * * * Transcriber’s note: Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unpaired quotation marks were corrected. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.