The Naval Gazetteer, Biographer, and Chronologist

only hope to present his narration of facts with fidelity, conciseness, and simplicity, while he has endeavoured to exhibit all the glorious and splendid victories of the late wars, that have signalized those illustrious chiefs who have fought, bled, and died, in their country's cause. Thus composed, he trusts the present work will be a faithful record of naval transactions, a cenotaph to the manes of warriors now no more, a tribute of homage to the present survivors, and a stimulus to the emulation of our rising youth, when they are called upon to vindicate the independence of their country, and enroll their names in proud preeminence among the HowEs, the DUNCANS, the JERVISES, and the NELSONS, in the temple of immortal Fame.

DIRECTIONS

CONTENTS.

ᏢᎪᎡᎢ L.

A general Record of Maritime and Naval Occurrences during

the late Wars, together with Biographical Sketches of our

principal Naval Commanders, arranged under appropri-

ate Heads, and in alphabetical order, the principal En-

gagements being related under the names by which they

are generally known, with neatly-engraved Plans of the

several Actions....

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PART II.

A Chronological Account of all the Ships of the Belligerent

Powers, lost, taken, or destroyed, during the Wars, from

their commencement in 1793, to their final conclusion in

1815, arranged in Sections, as follows:

IX. Commanding Officers, who lost their lives in the service of

....

475

Great Britain during the Wars ....

X. General Statement of Ships captured from the different hostile

Powers, and Ships destroyed in Action, during the War.. 534

Statement

Page.

Statement of the Distribution of the British Naval Force, at
the Commencement of Hostilities, February 1793....... 535
Statement of the Distribution of the British Naval Force, at
the Conclusion of Hostilities, July 1815.....

ib.

PART III.

A Chronological Account of all the Privateers taken or de-

stroyed by the British during the Wars, arranged as

follows: