Every Man Will Do His Duty (79 page)

Rendezvous
, HMS,
204

Renommée
(French ship,
later
Java),
256-57
,
259-60
,
289

Resolution
(British ship),
111

Revenge
, HMS,
159
,
219
,
226
,
230
,
231-32

Revolutionnaire
(French ship),
16
,
16
n

Reyna Luisa, La
(Spanish packet),
106

Richardson, Capt, Charles,
213
,
221

Richardson, William,
xxvii
,
3-11
,
213-33

Rio de La Hache Indians,
327-31

Ritchie, seaman,
26

Rivers, Mr.,
177

Robinson, Lieutenant,
4
,
7

Robinson, William (Jack Nastyface),
xxiv
,
xxvi
,
159-68

Rodd, Captain,
220

Rodgers, Commodore,
368

Rodgers, John,
383

Rodney, Comm. John,
38

Romulus
, HMS,
66

Roncière, Captain de la,
231

Rose
(British merchant ship),
45-47
,
46
n
,
53
n
,
365
,
381

Rotely, Lieutenant,
182

Royal George
, HMS,
18
,
213

Royal Navy, British,
xxv
,
xxvii
,
54
,
107
,
303
,
319

Royal Sovereign
, HMS,
26
,
161
,
170
,
171-72

Royal William
, HMS,
10
,
41

Rude, George,
52
n

Sadler, Jack,
309

St. Anna
,
171-72

St. Fiorenzo
(French ship),
33
,
38

St. George
, HMS,
55
,
213

St. George’s Island,
142
,
147

St. Lorenzo Island,
352-53
,
354

St. Lucia,
156

St. Salvadore
, HMS,
299

Salamine
, HMS,
126

Salvador del Mondo
(Spanish ship),
78

Sanders, Capt, George,
202
,
202
n
,
203
,
204-5

San Josef
(Spanish ship),
78
,
82

San Nicolas
(Spanish ship),
77
,
78
,
82

Sanspareil
(French ship),
28

Santa Sabinga
(Spanish frigate),
69

Santissima Trinidad
(Spanish ship),
73
,
79
,
85
,
170
,
173

San Ysidro
(Spanish ship),
78

Saturn
, HMS,
393
,
394

Saumarez, Adm. Sir James,
202

Sawyer, Capt. Charles,
53

Schomberg,
33
n

Scilly Isles,
41
,
41
n
,
395

Scioto
(American ship),
321

Scott, Dr.,
170
,
175
,
176
,
177
,
178
,
179-80

Scott, Michael,
293
n

Scott (public secretary),
170
,
172

Scylla
, HMS,
398-99

Seamen

clothing,
4
,
10

dancing,
7

discipline of,
xxiii-xxiv
,
6-7
,
152-53

drinking,
8

food for,
20
,
40

grievances of,
xxv

loyalty of,
xxiv

rat infestations and,
52
,
52
n

scurvy and,
10

treatment of, by British,
304
,
317

vantage points of,
xxv-xxvi

Seeker, Serjeant Major,
174

Seine, La
(French ship),
14
,
256

Senora de Gratia
(Genoese ship),
129

Sercey, Rear-Adm. Marquis de,
111
,
118

Seringapatam
(American ship),
382

Seymour, Capt. Sir Michael,
279
n

Shakings (dog),
148-52

Shannon
, HMS,
292
,
292
n

Shaw, John K.,
379

Shortland, Capt. John,
255
,
256
,
257
,
258-59
,
289

Shovell, Sir Clowdsiley,
41
,
41
n

“Showdown at Valparaiso” (Porter),
367-94

Sir Andrew Hammond
(American ship),
382
,
390

Sirius
, HMS,
169

Sisters
, HMS,
226

Smith, Assistant Surgeon,
176
,
178

Smith, Mr.,
53

Smith, Sir Sidney,
186

Smollett, Tobias,
405
n

Smuggling,
35-36

Smyth, John Greatrise,
53
n

Snake
, HMS,
204
,
210

Soleil, Captain,
188

Sotheby, Rear-Admiral,
232

Soult, Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu,
234
,
239

South Pacific

cruise of 1812-1814,
xxv
,
345-66

map,
348

Spafford, James,
355
,
355
n
,
383

Spain,
56
,
56
n
,
87
,
128-29

declares war on Britain,
156

Napoleon’s occupation of,
184

Spanish Coast,
132-33

Spanish Grand Fleet,
63
,
64-69
,
86

and Battle of Cape St. Vincent,
70-80
,
84
n
,
85
,
169

and Battle of Trafalgar,
162
,
164
,
167-68

Spanish Main,
xxv
,
127
,
322

Spanish privateers,
92
,
95-96
,
102
,
128-36

Speedy
, HMS,
119
,
120-36

map of cruise,
124-25

Spiller, Mr.,
281

Spithead, England,
41

Standard
(British ship),
351

Steel,
87

Sterne, Laurence,
275
,
405
n

Stopford, Rear-Adm. Robert,
212
,
216
,
217
,
218
,
220-21
,
222
,
224
,
230
,
231

Strachan (Strawen), Sir Richard,
10
,
89
,
90
,
213
,
215

Street, Midshipman,
271
,
273
,
274

Sturt, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield,
196

Suffolk
, HMS,
13
,
74

Surprize
, HMS,
118

Sutton, Capt. John,
58

Swallow
(packet),
4

Sweeny, Edward,
383

Swiftsure
, HMS,
182

Sybille, La
(French ship),
220
,
221
n

Sybille, La
, HMS

action with
La Forte
,
xxv
,
xxvi
,
111-19
,
117
n

Tagus
, HMS,
384
,
390

Tagus River,
99
,
102

Taylor, Captain,
10

Taylor, Captain A.,
320
,
340
,
341
,
342

Téméraire
, HMS,
171
,
173
,
174
,
182
,
213

Temple, Midshipman,
186
,
186
n
,
200

Teneriff Island,
87

Terceira Island,
339

Terrible
(Spanish ship),
65
,
66

Terry, James,
388

Texel
, HMS,
201
,
202
,
203

Thalia
, HMS,
190

Theseus
, HMS,
219
,
226

“They Would as Soon Have Faced the Devil Himself as Nelson” (M.C.),
54-63

Thomas
, HMS,
223

Thomas, Midshipman,
259
,
261
,
274

Thompson, John (Jack),
60

Thompson, Midshipman John,
257-58

Thompson, Vice-Admiral,
79
,
87

Throgmorton, Mr.,
280
,
281

Tigat, Le
,
88

Tobago,
156

“Toe-the-line matches,”
152

Toirdinson, Seaman,
36

Tonnant
, HMS,
222
,
230
,
232

Tonnere
(French ship),
226
,
228
,
231

Topaze
(French ship),
33
,
38

Torres, Capt. Don Francisco de,
135

Tourville
(French ship),
231

Tower of London,
50
n

Townsend, Old Jack,
61-62

Towry, Capt. George Henry,
56

Travels Through France and Italy
(Smollett),
405
n

Tremendous
, HMS,
109
n

Triumph
, HMS,
213
,
219

Trogoff, Rear-Adm. Comte de,
33

Tromp
, HMS,
225

Troubridge, Capt. Sir Thomas,
13
n
,
28
,
28
n
,
72
,
73

True-Blooded Yankee
(American privateer),
396
n

Tucker, Capt. Thomas,
367
,
369
,
370
,
389

Turds Bay,
131

Turtles,
5-8

Twysden, Lieutenant,
18
,
21
,
22
,
28

Tyrannicide, Le
(French ship),
17
,
19

Tyrrell, Capt. Edward,
50-52
,
50
n

“Unequal Match, An” (Dillon),
185-212

Unicorn
, HMS,
224

United States

and French Revolutionary War,
15

War of 1812,
299

See also
American privateers; American seamen; American ships

U.S. Navy,
xxvii
,
290

United States
, USS,
xxvii
,
343
,
344

action with
Macedonian
(1812),
xxiv
,
303-19

“Unjustifiable and Outrageous Pursuit, An” (Little),
320-44

Ushant Island,
13

Valiant
, HMS,
30
,
219
,
226
,
228

Valparaiso, Chile,
345
,
353
,
354
,
367-94

Van Stabel, Rear-Admiral,
15
n

Varsovie
(French ship),
226
,
228
,
229

Vashon, Adm. James,
201
,
202-3
,
204
,
205
,
211-12

Vashon, Capt. James Giles,
203

Vashon, Mr.,
116

Vashon, Mrs.,
203

Vengeur
(French ship),
27
n
,
31
,
31
n

Vesuvius
, HMS,
231

Viana, Portugal,
95
,
96
,
97
,
102
,
103

Victory
, HMS,
41
,
70
,
72
,
73
,
76-77
,
79
,
81
,
84
,
168
,
169-74
,
176
,
177
,
181-83

Vigo, Portugal,
91
,
92
,
94-96
,
94
n
,
95
n
,
98
,
100
,
103
,
234-35
,
236

Villaret-Joyeuse, Rear-Admiral,
11

Ville de Paris, HMS,
251

Villeneuve, Admiral,
156
,
170

Voller, Mr.,
187

Voller, Mrs.,
187
,
189
,
190
,
193
,
194

Waldegrave, Vice-Admiral W.,
77

Walker
(American whale-ship),
345
,
346
,
349

Walker, Mr.,
312
,
318

Wall, Sailor,
231

Wallis, Capt. James,
33
,
34
,
35
,
38
,
40
,
41
,
42
,
43

Walter, General,
294

War of 1812 (1812–1815),
xxiv
,
289
,
299
,
303-19
,
321-44
,
345