Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Page 6: “If Nelson, in 1789,” should be 1798.

Page 10: “by in Navy” was printed that way; probably should be “by the Navy”.

Pages 11 and 29: Footnotes were unmarked in original, but have been marked as footnotes here.

Page 66: “Nieuport” was printed that way; should be “Nieuwpoort”.

Map II: For improved readability, Transcriber added larger copies of the left-and right-hand sides of the second map.