Great Britain, feeble hold of, upon Canada, 1775, 10;
    shown by rewards for saving the colony, 26;
    inadequate provision of force by, 1774-1776, 29, 30, 59, 62, 79,
          82, 99, 112, 116, 117, 120, 127, 148, 189, 193, 226;
    improper dispersion of effort by, 30, 31, 48, 52, 56, 62, 63,
          72, 113-115, 151-153, 175;
    distrust of Government of, among naval officers, 79, 81, 93, 95,
          97, 99, 135, 146, 157, 158, 193;
    alarm in, produced by Allied fleets in Channel, 1779, 117;
    declares war against Holland, 1780, 158.

  Grenada, British West India Island, captured by French, 105;
    naval battle off, 105-112.

  Haiti, French West India Island, 147, 148, 168 (see “Cap Francois");
    squadron action off north coast of, 153-155.

  Hardy, Sir Charles, British Admiral, commands Channel Fleet, 117,
          119.

  Holland, brought into War of American Independence by concurring
          in Armed Neutrality of Baltic Powers, 1780, 3, 158, 236;
    colonial possessions of, 3, 158, 160-162, 236, 240, 246;
    St. Eustatius, St. Martin, and Saba, West India Islands of,
          taken by Rodney, 160-162;
    battle of Doggers Bank, 189-193;
    fleet of, held in check by Howe, 1782, 228;
    Cape of Good Hope menaced by British, saved by Suffren, 236-238;
    Trincomalee, in Ceylon, taken by British, 240, recaptured by
          Suffren, 247.

  Hood, Sir Samuel (afterwards Lord), British Admiral, arrives in
          West Indies, 1781, with reinforcements for Rodney, 160;
    sent to cruise off Martinique, to intercept de Grasse, 162;
    action between, and de Grasse, 163-167;
    exceptional ability of, 166, 184;
    French tribute to, 167;
    sent by Rodney with fourteen ships-of-the-line to reinforce
          North American station, 176;
    under command of Admiral Graves, sails for Chesapeake, 177;
    part of, in action between Graves and de Grasse, 180-183;
    criticisms of, upon Graves’s conduct, 181, 182, 184;
    returns to West Indies, 185;
    in chief command there for two months, 196-205;
    brilliant operations of, at St. Kitts, 197-205;
    superseded by Rodney’s return, 205;
    part of, in action of April 9, 1782, 208-210;
    in battle of April 12, 212-221;
    de Grasse’s flagship strikes to, 221;
    censures passed by, upon Rodney’s course after the battle, 220,
          222, 224, 225;
    detached in pursuit, captures a small French squadron, 224;
    returns to England after the peace, 226.

  Hotham, William, British naval Captain, in operations against New
          York, 1776, 42;
    convoys reinforcement of troops to West Indies, 100;
    left in West Indies in temporary command, by Rodney, 148.