returns to Europe, 148;
    commands French contingent to Allied Fleet under de Cordova,
          1781, 188;
    advises attack upon British Fleet in Tor Bay, 189;
    loses great part of West India military convoy entrusted to his
          charge, 196.

  De Langara, Spanish Admiral, squadron under command of, defeated,
          and himself captured by Rodney, 122, 123;
    inefficiency of, 125.

  D’Orves, Comte, French Admiral, commands in East Indies, 1781,
          235, 236;
    joined by Suffren, 239;
    sails for Coromandel Coast, 240;
    dies, and succeeded by Suffren, 240.

  D’Orvilliers, Comte, French Admiral, commander-in-chief of Brest
          Fleet, 1778, 82;
    puts to sea, 82;
    Government instructions to, 83;
    encounter with British Fleet under Keppel, 83;
    manoeuvres of, and action of July 27, 83-91;
    comment upon, 92, 97;
    summer cruise of, 1779, 116-120;
    hampered by instructions, 119;
    returns to Brest unsuccessful, 120.

  De Suffren, Bailli, French Captain and Admiral, with d’Estaing in
          Narragansett Bay, 1778, 69;
    in the action with Byron off Grenada, 111;
    his comment upon d’Estaing’s conduct, 111;
    biographical summary of, 111 (note);
    sails for East Indies, 1781, 163, 236;
    effect upon operations of, in India, by capture of a French
          convoy in Bay of Biscay, 228;
    attacks British squadron in Porto Praya, 236-238;
    saves Cape of Good Hope, 238;
    arrives Ile de France, 239;
    succeeds to chief command in East Indies, 240;
    five battles with British squadron, 240, 242, 244, 247, 253;
    captures Trincomalee, 1782, 247;
    relieves Cuddalore, 252-254;
    estimate of, 254, 255.

  De Ternay, French Commodore, commands squadron with convoy, from
          Brest for Newport, R.I., 155;
    action with British squadron under Cornwallis, 1780, 155-157;
    comment, favorable and unfavorable, 156;
    death of, 1781, and succeeded by des Touches, 170.

  Des Touches, French Commodore, succeeds de Ternay in command at
          Newport, 1781, 170;
    sails to enter Chesapeake Bay, to check British operations in
          Virginia, 170;
    pursued by Arbuthnot, 171;
    action between the two squadrons, 171-173;
    gains tactical advantage, but leaves the field to the British,
          174;
    justified by de Barras, who arrives and supersedes him, 174.

  De Vaudreuil, Marquis, French Admiral, second to de Grasse in
          1782, 209;
    commands-in-chief partial attack on Hood’s division, 209;
    quoted, 214;
    succeeds to chief command upon de Grasse’s surrender, 222;
    condition of his command after the battle, 223;
    pursued by Rodney, but reaches Cap Francois, 225.