Guiche, Comte de, on English and Dutch tactics, 118-9

Guides, 239, 240-1, 278-9

Gunfire as basis of tactics, 120

Gunners and gun crews, 35, 62, 69.
  See also Seamen gunners

Gunnery, 69, 97, 263.
  See also Close action, and Fire discipline

Hand-guns, 11

Harpoons, 11

Harvey, Captain Eliab, 297, 310

Hawke, Lord, 116,209,210-1;
  his Additional Instructions, 217-8, 312

Hawkins, Sir Richard, 34

Henry VIII, 14, 18

Herbert, Admiral, See Torrington

Hill, General Lord, 292

Holmes, Admiral Sir Robert, 132 n.

Hood, Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel, 322

Hood, Viscount, 211-4;
  his additional signals, 228-9, 236-8, 255

Hope, Captain George, 295, 303, 320 n.

Hoste, Pere Paul, his Evolutions Navales, 97-8, 113-4, 179-83,
    225 n., 235-6, 257, 262-3, 308

Howard of Effingham, Lord, 27, 29

Howard, Sir Edward, 14

Howe, Earl, 184-5, 225 n.;
  as first lord, 233-8, 252 et seq., 262-5, 267;
  his great manoeuvre, 255-62, 265, 267, 287, 308, 311, 336

Hygiene, 44, 60

Initiative, 267-8, 279, 314.
  See also Divisions, independent control of

Intervals, 67, 113, 127, 158, 191, 220, 222-3, 244, 327-8, 330 n.

Jack-flag, 108 and n.

James II, 168.
  See also York, Duke of

Jervis, Admiral Sir John, Earl of St. Vincent, 254, 265-6

Jonquiere, Admiral de la, 209

Jordan, Admiral Sir Joseph, 141, 155 n.

Keats, Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin, 290-2, 295-6, 304, 311, 322

Keith, Admiral Lord, 336, 341

Keppel, Admiral Augustus, Viscount, 235, 258

Knowles, Admiral Sir Charles, 1st bart. (ob. 1777), 224 n., 235,
    258

Knowles, Admiral Sir Charles Henry, 2nd bart. (1754-1831), 185, 210,
    235 n., 235-7, 257-8, 260-1

Landing, 16

Lasking, 171

Lawson, Admiral Sir John, 112

Lestock, Admiral, 188 n., 205-8

Lindsey, Robert Bertie, Earl of, 76-7, 85

Line. See also Orders of battle. 
  Abreast, 75, 107-9, 165-6, 220
  Ahead, origin of, 28-36, 42, 59, 62, 82-7;
    first instructions for, 92, 95-9, 100-2, 108-9, 124-6;
    insistence on, 134-5, 149, 155, 159, 335-9;
    close hauled, first use of, 113;
    invented by English, 118-21
  of bearing, see Quarter line
  Breaking the, 114, 136-7, 142, 149, 153, 158 n., 169-70,
    176-8, 182, 212, 229, 237, 289, 314-5, 324-5;
    early objections to, 145, 153 n., 183-4, 256;
    the two methods of, 255-62, 264-6, 279, 326-7, 330-3;
    synonyms for, 261