Every Man Will Do His Duty (76 page)

Bligh, Lieutenant,
178
,
181

Bombay, India,
7-8

Bonaparte, Joseph,
233

Bond, Capt. Francis,
87-94
,
90
n
,
98-100
,
102-7

Bonne Citoyenne, La
, HMS,
69
,
71

Bordo (prisoner),
217

Bostwick, M. W.,
388

Bowen, Capt. James,
189

Bowers, Lieut. William,
395-406

Boycott, Lieutenant,
27

Brenton, Captain,
30
n
,
188

Brest, France,
260

Bridport, Baron,
18
n
.
See also
Alexander Hood

Britain

declares war on France (1803),
156

Napoleon’s desire to invade,
183

Spain declares war on (1804),
156

and War of 1812,
299

Britannia
, HMS,
76
,
79

British Fleet,
12
n
,
16

Mediterranean Fleet,
55

ships on the coast of Peru and Chili (list),
350-51
,
381

and Trafalgar,
18n
See also
Channel Fleet

Brown, Lieutenant,
174

Brown, Mate William,
314-15

Brunswick
, HMS,
27
,
27
n
,
51

“Bryan O’Lynn” (comic song),
42-43

Bucentaur
(Spanish ship),
170
,
173

Buchan, Mr.,
106

Bulford, Lieut. John,
312

Bulkley, Mr.,
176
,
177

Burgh, General de,
57
,
60
,
63

Burke, Mr.,
175
,
176-77
,
178
,
180

Burley, Mr.,
50

Burrard, Gen. Sir Harry,
233

Cadiz, Spain,
35
,
36

bombardment of,
87

Caesar
, HMS,
16
,
19
,
213
,
216
,
217
,
220-24
,
226
,
230
,
232

Calcutta
(French ship),
216-17
,
221
,
226
,
228
,
231

Calder, Capt. Robert,
70
,
85
,
86
,
159

Caledonia
, HMS,
213
,
222
,
230

Callao, Peru,
354-55

Calypso
(French ship),
220
,
221

Cambrian
, HMS,
142
,
275

Cameron (French pilot),
217

Cape Finister,
105-6

Capel, Thomas Bladen,
234

Captain
, HMS,
54
,
55
,
69
,
73
,
76-83
,
82
n

Car (Ker), Captain,
219

Card, John,
306

Carden, Capt. John Surman,
303
,
311-12
,
316

Carreras,
391

Carrington, Lord,
188

Carslake, Lieutenant J.,
285

Cartagena, Spain,
324-25

Carysfort
, HMS,
13n

Cassard
(French ship),
230
,
231

Castor
, HMS,
13
,
28

Catharine
, HMS,
381
,
390

Cazy, Squire,
95

Cerberus
, HMS,
46
n

Chance
, HMS,
118

Channel Fleet,
299

and Basque Roads,
213
,
218

and blockade of France,
212

and French Revolutionary War,
10

and Glorious First,
11-13
,
13
n
,
14
,
17-20

Chantrell, Lieut. Billy,
35
,
37
,
40

Charles
(American whale-ship),
345-6
,
349

Charlton
, HMS,
381

Chatham, Lord,
204

Chatham Island,
359-60

Chatterton, George,
52
n

Cherub
, HMS,
367
,
369-79
,
382-85
,
389

Chesapeake action (1781),
12
n

Chevalier, Mr.,
179

Childers
, HMS,
192-93
,
195-97
,
199
,
200
,
201-12

Chilean Revolution,
391

Chili (Chile), coast of,
350-51
,
354
,
381
,
391

Christian, Adm. Sir H.,
189

Christina
(Danish galliot),
210

Churchill, Lord,
311
,
312

Cintra negotiations,
233

Clark, Mr.,
225

Cleveland
, HMS,
230

Clorinde
(French ship),
256-57
,
260
,
289

Cochrane, Adm. Sir Alexander,
xxv
,
xxvi
,
120
,
223
,
225
,
229
,
232-33
,
293
,
394

Cochrane, Hon. Archibald,
136

Cochrane, Lieut. Thomas,
119
,
120-36

Cockburn, Captain,
56
,
65
,
66-67

Collingwood, Admiral Lord,
8
,
161
,
164
,
171
,
172
,
178
,
179
,
184

Collingwood, Captain,
76
,
77

Collingwood, Midshipman,
182

Colossus
, HMS,
71
,
72
,
76

Combined Fleets,
170
,
183

Comenia River fort,
97

“Commence the Work of Destruction” (Dillon),
12-32

Commerce de Marseilles
(French ship),
33
,
33
n

Committee of Thirty (Corsica),
59

Concord
, HMS,
9

Conflict
, HMS,
222
,
225

Conn, Lieutenant,
256
,
259-61
,
274
,
284
,
285

Consitt, Seaman,
26
,
30
n

Constitution
(French privateer),
123

Constitution
, USS,
289
,
290
,
332
,
343
,
344
,
352
,
380
n

Cook, Capt. James,
111
,
111
n

Cook (Cooke), Capt. Edward (of
La Sybille)
,
111
,
111
n
,
116
,
117
,
117
n
,
118

Cooke, Captain (of
Mornington)
,
110
,
111
,
112
,
114
,
118

Cooper, Boy,
309

Coral reefs,
143-44
,
145
,
146

Cordova, Adm. Don Jose de,
63
,
66
,
73

Cornwallis, Adm. Sir William,
4
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
18
n

Cornwallis, Lord, Charles, 1st Marquis,
4

Corsica,
54
,
56-63

Corunna, Spain,
156
,
233
,
234
.
See also
Battle of Corunna

Cosby, Vice-Admiral P.,
33
,
34

Covington, Gunner,
89

Cowan, Lieut. John S.,
383

Cowan, Midshipman,
354
,
364

Cowell, John G.,
361
,
387
,
388

Cowey, Mr.,
223

Croker, John Wilson,
311

Crump, Mr.,
36

Culloden
, HMS,
71
,
72
,
73
,
80

Culverhouse, Lieutenant,
65
,
68
,
69

Curtis, Sir Roger
(later
Baronet),
29
,
29
n
,
289

“Daddy” (midshipman),
151-55

Daedalus
, HMS,
108
n
,
109

Dallas, George M.,
399
,
399
n

Dalrymple, Gen. Sir Hugh,
233

“Damn ’em, Jackson, They’ve Spoilt My Dancing” (Jackson),
255-89

Danish,
169
,
206-8

Dann, John,
xxvi

Davies, Lieutenant,
224

Davis, Captain,
112
,
117
,
118

Davis, Lieutenant,
229

“Death of Lord Nelson, The” (Beatty),
169

Decatur, Comm. Stephen,
303
,
311
,
316
,
318
,
387

Defence
, HMS,
xxvi
,
195
,
12-32

Defiance
, HMS,
215
,
218-19
,
220
,
221
,
222

Delancey, Col. Sir William Howe,
253-54
,
253
n

Demerara,
156

Demourisque
(merchant ship),
14

Devonshire, Midshipman,
271
,
272
,
274

Diadem
, HMS,
56
,
58
,
73
,
77

Dickson (Dixon), Lieut. John,
27
,
27
n

Diego Garcia Island,
4-5

Dillon, Lady,
187

Dillon, Sir John Joseph,
xxvi

Dillon, Sir William Henry,
xxv-xxvi
,
xxvii
,
12-32
,
185-212

Dillon, William Mervyn,
188

Discipline

and cat-’o-nine-tails,
159

and impressed Americans,
292

and mast-head,
153

and swearing,
7

Discovery
, HMS,
111

Dixon, Admiral,
352

Donalson, Boatswain,
89

Donegal
, HMS,
215
,
218
,
219
,
220
,
221

Dotterel
, HMS,
218
,
220
,
221
,
225

Douglas, Mr.,
111
,
116

Douglas, Admiral B.,
198-99

Douglas, Sir Andrew,
30

Downes, Lieut. John,
347
,
349
,
360
,
361
,
364
,
367-68
,
369
,
379
,
382
,
383
,
386
,
393

Dragon
, HMS,
213

Drake’s Island,
291

Dreadnought
, HMS,
213
,
232

Dromo
(American ship),
335

Dryad
, HMS,
297

Dubosc, Captain,
40

Ducker, Boatswain,
37-38
,
42

Duckworth, Adm. Sir John,
373
,
375

Duncan, Admiral,
87

Duncan, Mr.,
34

Dunciad, The
,
38
n

Durand, James,
xxvii
,
289
,
290-99

Duzenbery, Samuel L.,
379
,
388

East India Company,
44
,
45
,
47
n
,
48
,
48
n
,
117
n
,
118
,
344
,
364

Eastwick, Robert,
xxv
,
xxvi
,
107
,
108-19

Ecce Homo
(Spanish ship),
129

Edgar, Lieutenant,
34
,
40
,
42

Edmonds, Lieut. Thomas,
195
n

Egmont
, HMS,
54
,
58
,
76

Egyptienne, V
(French privateer),
91

Ehrman, John,
47
n

Elba Island,
56

Elizabeth
(British ship),
216

Elliot, Mr.,
30
,
30
n

Elliot, Sir Gilbert,
54
,
56
n
,
57
,
59-60
,
63-70
,
80
,
81
,
83
,
84
,
86
,
87

Ellis, Jack,
229

Emerald
, HMS,
217
,
220
,
221
,
225

Emmet, Tom,
8

Endeavour
, HMS,
110
,
116
,
117
,
118

Endymion
, HMS,
234
,
252

Engageant
(French ship),
10

Eole, L’
(French ship),
30

Esperance, L’
(schooner),
93
,
94

Essel, Sub-Lieut. John,
278
n