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| | INDEX | | Aberdeen, 4th Earl of, 82 n., 148, 172 ; and commerce protection, 99, 262 ; and France, 148, 150 -1, 163, 164 -7, 173 -4, 286, 289 ; ideas on sea power, 3, 58, 151, 152, 163, 164 ; and national defence, 163 -7, 285, 288. | | | Acre, battle of, 42, 138, 142 -3, 144 -7, 214. | | | Adams, John Quincy, 70. | | | Aden, 129. | | | Admiralty, appointments to, 6 - 8, 44 ; building policy of, 33 - 34, 113 -16, 126, 127, 154, 215, 218, 290 ; conservatism of, viii, 34, 202 -7, 216 -18, 325 -6, 330 -7; and dockyard reform, 295 - 302 ; and manning, 47 - 49, 123, 136 ; 138 -9, 153, 230, 270, 304 -10, 336 ; and patronage (naval officers), 45 - 47, 316 -18; (dock- yards), 295 -8; and naval distri- bution, 61, 136, 154, 230, 273, see also Naval distribution; re- organization of ( 1832), 9 - 12 ; and steam power (to 1830), 157, 196 -7, 199 - 200, 202 -7; ( 1830-53), 207 -28, 290, 325 -9, 331 -3. | | | -- First Lords of, status, character and abilities, 4 - 6. See also Lord High Admiral; Auckland; Baring; De Grey; Ellenborough; Graham; Haddington; Melville; Minto; Northumberland. | | | -- Lords of, duties, 18 - 19 ; numbers reduced, 18. | | | Afghanistan, 120. | | | Alexander I of Russia, 77. | | | Algeria, French conquest of, 117, 130, 160. | | | Algiers, bombardment of, 61 - 63. | | | Althorp, Viscount ( 3rd Earl Spencer), 87, 91. | | | Anderson, Arthur ( Managing Director, P & O Steam Navi- gation Co.), 237, 285. | | | Anti-slave trade patrol, 99, 149, 152 -3, 210, 263, 267 -8, 269 -70; objections to, 19, 268 -9. | | | Antwerp, 87 - 88. | | | Armoured ships, 201, 217 -18. | | | Army, British, estimates ( 1816), 14 ; strength, 240 -1. | | | Ascension Island, 60. | | | Attwood, Thomas (M.P.), 122. | | | Auckland, 1st Earl of, 111, 115, 259 -60 and H.M.S. Excellent, 42 ; and manning, 229, 232, 253, 305, 314 ; and national defence, 190, 191, 229, 233 -4, 236, 249, 254 ; and naval reductions, 254 -5, 256, 301 -2; and promotion of officers, 47 ; and select com- mittee of 1848, 253, 259 -60; and ship building, 114, 126 ; and steam power, 208 -9, 226 -7, 228 ; survey of naval strength ( 1847- 8), 232 -5. | | | Bahrein, 129. | | | Barbary pirates, 61 - 63, 64, 266. | | | Barham, Admiral, 1st Baron, 18. | | | Baring, Sir Francis Thornhill, 253, 273, 284, 296, 297 ; and commerce protection, 265 -6; and France, 273, 278, 280, 281 ; and manning, 285, 305 -6; and national defence, 273 -4, 281, 282, 283 -4, 285 ; and steam power, 227. | | | Barrow, Sir John ( Permanent Sec- retary of the Admirality), 35, 36, 111. | | | Bathurst, 3rd Earl, 64, 79. | | | Belgium, revolt of, 85 - 88. | | | Berkeley, Admiral Sir Maurice F., 8, 123, 310, 314, 327. | | | Bermuda, 60, 242, 243, 303. | | | Blockades, of Colombia by Spain ( 1822), 69 ; of Dutch coast, 87 - 88, 207 -8. | | | BolĂvar, Simon, 68. | | | Bombay, 113. | -357- | | |
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Publication Information: Book Title: Great Britain and Sea Power, 1815-1853. Contributors: C. J. Bartlett - author. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1963. Page Number: 357.
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