Arethusa, British frigate.  Encounter with French frigate Belle
          Poule marks beginning of War of 1778 with France, 62, 82.

  Armed Neutrality, The, of 1780, 3, 158.

  Arnold, Benedict, American General.  Effects following his action
          on Lake Champlain in 1776, 3, 4, 7, 25;
    with, Ethan Allen, seizes Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1775, 8;
    captures or destroys all hostile shipping on Lake Champlain, 9;
    traverses Maine forests, and joins Montgomery before Quebec, 10;
    maintains blockade of Quebec till arrival of a British squadron,
          10;
    retreats to Crown Point, and destitution of his troops, 11;
    schemes for maintaining command of Lake Champlain, 12;
    his force, and its character, 14, 15, 17;
    compelled by shore batteries to abandon lower Narrows of the
          Lake, 15;
    selects Valcour Island as position for defence, 15;
    decision to risk destruction of force rather than retire, 18, 19;
    sound strategic and tactical ideas, 20;
    Battle of Valcour Island, 21;
    successful withdrawal after defeat, 23;
    overtaken and flotilla destroyed, 25;
    effect of his resistance in delaying British advance, 25;
    conduct, courage, and heroism throughout, 27;
    his subsequent treason, 18, 27, 152;
    commands British detachment in Virginia, 153, 169, 170, 174.

  Asiatic Immigration, Danger involved in, 4.

  Barbados, West India Island, headquarters of British Leeward
          Islands Station, 99;
    advantage of Santa Lucia over, 104, 144, 207;
    notably for crippled ships, 144;
    devastated by hurricane, 1780, 159.

  Bartington, Samuel, British Admiral, commands Leeward Islands
          Station, 99;
    capture of Santa Lucia by, 100-102;
    successfully resists d’Estaing’s effort to recapture, 103, 104;
    superseded in chief command by Byron, 105;
    share in Byron’s action with d’Estaing, 107, 109;
    goes home wounded, 112;
    refuses command-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, 1780, 157;
    serves in it under Howe, 227;
    captures a French convoy for East Indies, 227.

  Basse Terre, St. Kitts, Operations around, 1782, 196-205;
    character of anchorage at, 199.

  Battle, Order of, defined, 93 (note), 200 (note).

  Battles, Naval, Valcour Island, October 11, 1776, 19-23. 
    Charleston Harbor, June 28, 1776, 33. 
    D’Estaing and Howe, August 10 and 11, 1778, 73-75. 
    Ushant, July 27, 1778, 84-91. 
    Barrington and d’Estaing, Santa Lucia, December 15, 1778, 102-104. 
    Byron and d’Estaing, Grenada, July 6, 1779, 105-112. 
    De Langara and Rodney, Cape St. Vincent, January 16, 1780, 123. 
    De Guichen and Rodney, off Martinique, April 17, 1780, 131-135. 
    De Guichen and Rodney, May