PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE WAR WITH FRANCE TILL 1693

CHAPTER II EXPEDITIONS, CONVOY, AND THE PRIVATEERS

CHAPTER III THE MEN AND THE LIFE

CHAPTER IV THE TWO COLONIAL WARS

CHAPTER V THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR TILL 1758

CHAPTER VI THE YEARS OF TRIUMPH

CHAPTER VII THE AMERICAN WAR TILL 1780

CHAPTER VIII THE AMERICAN WAR TILL THE FALL OF YORKTOWN

CHAPTER IX THE CLOSE OF THE WAR AND THE EAST INDIES

CHAPTER X THE FIRST STAGE OF THE WAR

CHAPTER XI THE WAR TILL THE END OF 1797

CHAPTER XII THE MUTINIES

CHAPTER XIII THE NILE

CHAPTER XIV INVASION TILL THE CLOSE OF 1801

CHAPTER XV TRAFALGAR

CHAPTER XVI THE COMMAND OF THE SEA

FOOTNOTES

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

A SHORT HISTORY
OF THE
ROYAL NAVY
1217-1815

BY
DAVID HANNAY

VOLUME II
1689-1815

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON