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Records, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher
Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron
Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography; Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron, 1841-1920; Great Britain. Royal Navy
“Free Tank Day,” a, 22
Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War, 217, 218
Freedom of the seas nonsense, 75
French, Lord, 247
Friedland-Eylau campaign, 221
Friend, Lord Fisher’s letter to a, 76
Fushishima, Prince, 227
G
Gallifet, General, 31
Gard, Mr., 128
Gardiner, Mr. A. G., 11
Gaunt, John of, 96
Geddes, Sir Eric, 67, 246
German Emperor, the, 227, 230
German submarine menace, the, 65, 242
Gervais, Admiral, 264
Ginsburg, Dr., letter from Lord Fisher to, 41
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., final resignation of, 50 _et seq._, 264
Goodenough, Commodore, 211
Gould, Sir F. C., 36
Goschen, Rt. Hon. G. J., 264
Gracie, Mr., 128
Grafton, Richard, printer of the 1539 Bible, 38
Grant, Sir Hope, 17
Graves, Admiral, 7
“Great Silent Navy,” the, 95, 96
Greenwich Observatory, 124
Gunboat, the use of the, 116 _et seq._
Gunning, Miss, wife of two dukes and mother of four, 5, 6
H
Hadcock, Major A. G., 210, 233
Hamilton, Duke of, 5
Hamilton, Lady, 1, 6
Hamilton, Lord George, 54, 264
Hankey, Sir Maurice P. A., 173;
letter to Lord Fisher, 214–215;
letter of Lord Fisher to, 244
Hanotaux, M., 250
Harcourt, Lord, 53
Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir William, 51, 52, 53
Hawke, Admiral, Capt. A. T. Mahan on, 91
Hawkins, Sir Henry, _see_ Brampton, Lord
Hay, General, commandant of the Hythe School of Musketry, 17, 18
Heligoland Bight, a Naval Officer, on the battle of, 230, 245
Henderson, Wilfrid, 128
Hereditary titles out of date, 73;
Canada and, _ibid._
Hicks-Beach, Rt. Hon. Sir Michael, 51
Hilles, Captain, 261
Hole, Dean, 65
Hood, Captain Arthur W. A., 262
Hood, Sir H., 262, 264
Hope, Sir James, 14, 15, 261
Hopkins, Sir John, 170;
letter of, to Lord Fisher, _ibid._
Horton, Lady Wilmot, 4, 261
Hoskins, Sir A. H., 264
Hostile submarines, 183
House of Lords, Lord Fisher’s speech in, November, 1915, 86;
March 21, 1917, 87
How the Great War was carried on, 64 _et seq._
Howe, Julia Ward, 77
Hunger and thirst the way to Heaven, 10
Huxley, T. H., 42
Hythe School of Musketry, the, 17
I
Incarnation of Revolution, Lord Fisher as the, 20
Inge, Dean, 28, 47, 48
Ireland under military law, 31
J
Jackson, Sir Henry, 128
Jellicoe, Viscount, 128, 214, 215, 223, 226, 242, 243, 247, 267
Joffre, General, 247
“Jolly and Hustle,” 58 _et seq._
Jonah’s Gourd, 97 _et seq._
Jones, Captain Oliver, 15, 16, 17, 261
K
Keble, John, 19
Kelvin, Lord, 21, 61, 62, 63
Kerr, Lord Walter, 265
Kiel Canal, 214, 236, 237, 240
King Edward, 4, 24;
characteristic thoughtfulness of, 25–27;
his friendship for Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 32;
57, 60, 180, 227, 266, 268
King William IV, 1
Kitchener, Lord, 54, 229, 243, 247
Knollys, Lord, 24
Knox, Sir Ralph, 55
Krupp, 196, 197, 199
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Labouchere, Mr. Henry, 31, 32
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