Lafayette, General, 164, 169 La Hogue, battle of, 155–157, 165, 166 Levant, trade of, 33 Line of Battle, of fleets, 62, 156, 158, 162, 163. _See_ STRATEGIC LINES Logistics, defined, 49 London, 30 Louis XIV, of France, 37, 155; wars of, 137–141 Louis XVI, of France, 172 Louisburg, 20, 154 Macdonough, Commodore, 142 Madagascar, #$1#, 82 Madrid, 81, 209 Magellan, Straits of, 51, 67, 290 Malta, 20, 26, 58, 70, 107, 152, 287 Manchuria, 56, 57, 267, 300 Manila, 39, 143 Mantua, 76, 80 Marengo, battle of, 13, 14, 76, 257 Marlborough, Duke of, 142 Martinique, 25, 74, 104, 143, 154, 160, 161, 196, 241 Masampo Bay, 66 Mauritius, 20, 152 Mediterranean Sea, position of France on, 22, 59, 140; importance of, as a trade route, 27, 31, 39, 289–290; Villeneuve ordered to, 198–199; bases in, 287, 314 Metz, 71 Mexico, Gulf of, 29, 31, 35, 36, 65, 66; strategic features of, 100–112, 325 Milan, 50, 53 Minorca, 39, 107, 147, 154, 158 Mississippi River, importance of, 29, 31, 35, 69, 100, 101; in the Civil War, 42, 76, 143 Mobile Bay, battle of, 64, 251 Mona Passage, 102 Monroe Doctrine, 102, 111, 149, 288–291, 318, 320–322, 325, 356 Montreal, 231, 233, 234, 238, 240 Moore, Sir John, 81 Morocco, 306, 318, 320 Mukden, battle of, 56, 256 Naples, 38, 39 Napoleon, as a strategian, 11; anecdote of, 12–14; quoted, 4, 14, 55, 58, 70, 78, 110, 155, 173, 241, 271, 287, 296, 335; at Marengo and Mantua, 76, 257; a believer in the offensive, 80, 81, 152, 153; in commerce warfare with Great Britain, 92, 93, 95, 223–228, 331; armies of, 172; and the northern neutrals, 184, 187; his plan for the invasion of England, 191–198; and the Trafalgar campaign, 221–223, 248; downfall of, 237; at Waterloo, 239 Napoleonic Wars, 12, 31, 80, 81, 142, 307, 310, 343 Naval Administration, civil _vs._ military, 113–115; in peace and war, 115–118; British, 118–122; United States, 122–124. _See_ ADMIRALTY Naval Training, 8–15 Naval War College, Mahan at, #$1#; aims of, 10–15 Navarino, battle of, 178 Navies, motives for, 18, 355–357; a protection for commerce, 19; fighting order of, 61; an offensive weapon, 71–73 Navigation Acts, British, 337 Navy, _British_; training of officers in, 8–9; compared with French, 43; maneuvers of, 72; tactics of, in the 18th century, 156–158; protection afforded by, 306–308; _French_: training of officers in, 8–9; compared with British, 43; weakness of, in Revolutionary Wars, 146, 171–174, 178; faulty policy of, 155–158; _German_: growth and purpose of, 111, 299, 307, 317–320; _United States_: interested chiefly in material, 8; in Civil War, 41; insufficient, 44; in Spanish War, 59–60, 245, 250–253; concentration of fleet of, 60, 274–275; administration of, 122–124; requirements of, 128–134