How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves
by W.H.G. Kingston
- Introductory Remarks.
- Ships of the Ancients.
- Nautical Customs derived from the Ancients.
- Early English Ships (from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1087.)
- The Navy in the days of the Plantagenets - from A.D. 1087 to A.D. 1327.
- Ships and Commerce to the reign of Henry the Seventh - from A.D. 1327 to A.D. 1509.
- Establishment of the Royal Navy of England - from A.D. 1509 to A.D. 1558.
- Reign of Elizabeth - from A.D. 1558 to A.D. 1603.
- James the First - from A.D. 1567 to A.D. 1625.
- Charles the First to Termination of Commonwealth - A.D. 1625 to A.D. 1660.
- The Commonwealth.
- Charles the Second and James the Second - from A.D. 1660 to A.D. 1689.
- James the Second.
- A View of Naval affairs in Charles the Second's Reign.
- William and Mary - from A.D. 1689 to A.D. 1702.
- Queen Anne - from A.D. 1702 to A.D. 1714.
- George the First and Second - from A.D. 1714 to A.D. 1760.
- George the Second.
- George the Third - from A.D. 1760 to A.D. 1782.
- George the Third - from War with Republican France, A.D. 1792, to end of A.D. 1802.
- George the Third - from A.D. 1803 to end of war A.D. 1814.
- War with United States of America to war in Syria - from A.D. 1811 to A.D. 1840.
- First War with Burmah - 1826.
- The Second Burmese War - 1851-52.
- Battle of Navarino - 1827.
- Warfare in Syria with Mahomet Ali.
- First War with China, and efforts to suppress the Slave-Trade - A.D. 1840.
- African Coast Blockade.
- Dhow chasing on the East Coast of Africa.
- Expedition up the Niger.
- Warfare in the Nineteenth Century - from A.D. 1845 to A.D. 1900.
- Captain Loch's expedition up the Saint Juan De Nicaragua.
- Attacks on Pirates.
- War with China - 1856.
- Russian War - 1854-55.
- Operations in the Baltic.
- The Evolution of the Modern Warship.
- Modern Engines of War.
- The British Navy of to-day.