Part 29

HOWE, General, departs for England, 284.

Hudson, river, 442.

Hyeres Islands, 21.

Indefatigable, ship, 455; fight of, with Droits de l'Homme, 456, 457; narrow escape of, from wreck, 458.

India, 403.

Inflexible, ship, 435; launch and description of, 435, 436; in battle of Lake Champlain, 438, 439.

Intrepide, ship, 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 91.

Ionian Isles, slaves, natives of, released by Pellew, 462.

Ireland, French expedition against, sails from Brest, 455; expedition reaches, 456.

Jacobin, ship, 313.

Jamaica, threatened by Brest fleet, 160; 161; succored by Rodney, 162; 163; station, Rodney appointed to command, 167; station, required high degree of executive ability to command, 168; its situation in relation to Spanish colonies, 168; free ports instituted in, 169; Rodney moves toward, 243; 393.

JAMES II., Duke of York, his fighting instructions, 1665, 9.

JERVIS, Admiral, contrasted with Howe, 270-272, 320; contrasted with Nelson, 321; his opinion of Nelson, 321; birth of, 321, 322; early life of, 322; runs away to sea, 322; sails for West Indies, 322; early privations, 323; contrasted with Rodney, 324; cruises in the Caribbean, 324; returns to England, 324; is made lieutenant, 325; with Boscawen in the St. Lawrence, 325; goes to Mediterranean with Hawke, 325; relieves Byng, 325; associated with Sir Charles Saunders, 325; intimacy with Wolfe, 325; in command of Porcupine, 326; conversation of, with Wolfe before battle of Plains of Abraham, 326; leads fleet against Quebec, 326; goes to England after fall of Quebec, 327; appointed to command a ship, 327; ordered to return to North America, 327; puts in at Plymouth, leaking, 327; given command of sloop Albany, 327; conquers mutinous sailors, and sets sail, 328; arrives at New York, 328; promoted to post-captain, 328; an admiral at fifty-two, 328; commands frigate in Mediterranean, 328; resents insult to British flag, by Genoese officers, 329; forces an apology, 329; opposed to abolition of slave trade, 329; commissions the Foudroyant, 330; attached to the Channel fleet, 331; in Keppel's battle off Ushant, 331; at Gibraltar with Howe, 331; captures French ship Pegase, 331; receives a baronetcy, 332; receives Order of the Bath, 332; takes seat in Parliament, 332; supports Fox, 332; attains rank of rear-admiral and of vice-admiral, 332; is again afloat, 332; on service in Caribbean Sea, 332; his brusque treatment of a lieutenant, 332, 333; his attitude toward matrimony, 333; returns to England, 333; appointed to command Mediterranean Station, 333; joins fleet in San Fiorenzo Bay, 333; reaches grade of admiral of the Blue, 334; reaches crowning period of his career, 334; disposition of fleet of, 336; as strict disciplinarian, 337; anecdotes concerning this characteristic of, 337-340; his care of health of officers and men, 343, 344; embarrassment of, 347; disappointment of, at Admiral Mann's failure to obey orders, 349; cheerfulness of, under discouragements, 351; reinforcements reach, 351; encounters large Spanish fleet, 352; courageous remark of, 352; victory of, at Cape St. Vincent, 352-357; gratitude of England toward, 356; created Earl of St. Vincent, 356; analysis of movements of, in battle of Cape St. Vincent, 356, 357; blockades Spanish at Cadiz, 357; suppresses mutinous action of seamen, 358, 359; action of, in case of seamen, of ship St. George, 360, 361; repels attack of Spanish gunboats from Cadiz, 361, 362; stern repression of mutiny by, on board ship Marlborough, 362-367; stern rebuke of, to Capt. Ellison, 363, 364; brusque reply of, to Sir Edward Pellew, 367; sternness of, 368; forbids captains to dine each other, 368; quaint humor of, 369; anecdotes of, 369, 370; reverence of, for the flag, 372; satire upon, by Lieutenant Cumby, 373; pretended revenge of, for, 373. 374; decline of health of, 374; return of, to England, 374; placed in command of Channel fleet, 375; establishes rigid discipline in same, 375; closes port of Brest, 375; analysis of last named movement, 376; three great services of, to England, 378; discipline of, of Mediterranean fleet, 378; winning by, of Battle of St. Vincent, 378; suppression of mutinies by, 378; contrasted with Nelson, 378, 379; Nelson's esteem for, 379; Nelson's differences with, 379; arranges expedition which led to Battle of the Nile, 379; credit due, for same, 379, 380; later years of, 380; succeeds Pitt as First Lord of the Admiralty, 380; retires from active service, 380; hauls down his flag, 380; country seat of, 380; closing years of, 380, 381; liberality, of, 381; active habits of in old age, 381; death of, 381.

Judith, Point, 281.

KEITH, Lord, 367.

KEMPENFELT, Admiral, 288; second to Howe, 289; death of, 290; sent in pursuit of De Grasse, 393; makes valuable capture, 393.

KEPPEL, Admiral, appointed to Channel fleet, 176; resigns command of Channel fleet, 182; chagrin of, 286; 287; Jervis with, at Ushant, 331; assists Saumarez in advancement, 384, 385; companion of uncle of Saumarez, 385

Land's End, Howe's tactical movement off, 288.

LANGARA, his fleet destroyed by Rodney, 216.

Leander, ship, 472.

L'ETENDUERE, Commodore, attacked by Hawke, 89; Hawke commander in battle with, 97; 157.

Leghorn, in power of France, 346.

LESTOCK, Vice-Admiral, off Toulon, 21, 22; his part in trial of Mathews, 21-25; his own trial and defence, 26.

Levant, the, 384.

LINOIS, at battle at Algeciras, 416; his division in second attack, 419.

Lisbon, 350.

Louisa, ship, 60, 61, 64.

LOUIS XVI., treats Saumarez with attention, 398, 399.