Transcriber’s Notes
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.