The British Navy in Eastern Waters by Grainger John D.;

Author:Grainger, John D.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Published: 2022-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

1 Sen, French in India, 379–380. »

2 Ricklefs, Modern Indonesia, 59–65. »

3 For example, by the Princess Augusta in 1764 (Cotton, East Indiamen, 110). »

4 Bernard M. Vlekke, Nusantara, A History of the East Indian Archipelago, Cambridge, MA 1973, 217. »

5 Fry, How Australia Became British, 254, note 12, calculated presumably from Company records. »

6 Ibid, ch. 2, centred on the Dutch crisis; Simon Schama, Patriots and Liberators, Revolution in the Netherlands 1780–1813, 2nd ed., London 1994, ch. 3; for the wider European situation, Paul W. Schroeder, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848, Oxford, 1994, 35–46. »

7 See Appendix II of Rodger, Command of the Ocean, where Britain (‘England’) increased its line-of-battle ships by eight between 1785 and 1790 while France, the Netherlands, and Spain increased by twenty-three; in cruisers Britain’s total fell by two, the others increased by fourteen. »

8 Low, Indian Navy, 1.185–201. »

9 Low, Indian Navy, 1.185–187. »

10 Fry, How Australia Became British, 52–53. »

11 Low, Indian Navy, 1.197–198. »

12 Fry, How Australia Became British, 48–49. »

13 Ibid, 51–55; Home Popham, A Description of Prince of Wales Island …, London 1791. »

14 Low, Indian Navy, 1.200–201. »

15 Williams, Prize of All the Oceans, 169–170; see 121–124 for the routes of the galleons. »

16 Cranmer-Byng and Wills, ‘Trade and Diplomacy’, 195–199. »

17 Fry, Alexander Dalrymple, chs 3 and 4. »

18 Ibid, 170–173. »

19 Low, Indian Navy, 1.192–200; Fry, How Australia Became British, 51–52, 69–71. »

20 Fry, How Australia Became British, 54–65. »

21 Nigel Rigby et al., ‘The “Spirit of Discovery”: The Tragic Voyage of Lapérouse’, in Pacific Explorations, 116–119; Brosse, Great Voyages, 76–93. »

22 For Dutch problems see Schama, Patriots and Liberators, ch. 3; for the fate of the company, Fry, How Australia Became British, 31–36. »

23 Sen, French in India, 421–425. »

24 Documents on the events of 1783–1784 are in Marshall, Problems of Empire, 120–136 and 152–170; see also Marshall’s introduction. »

25 Geoffrey Blainey, The Tyranny of Distance, London 1974. »

26 Richmond, Navy in India, appendix 1. »

27 Low, Indian Navy, 1.172–177; MacDougall, Naval Resistance, 160–163. »

28 Forrest, Tiger of Mysore, 121–123, 126–129. »

29 C. Northcote Parkinson, War in the Eastern Seas, 1793–1815, London 1954, 55–56. »

30 Forrest, Tiger of Mysore, 134–201; Franklin and Mary Wickwire, Cornwallis, the Imperial Years, Chapel Hill, NC 1980, 117–170. »

31 MacDougall, Naval Resistance, 172–176. »

32 Parkinson, War, 62–63. »

33 Sen, French in India, ch. 18. »

34 Hoskins, British Routes, 44. »

35 Sen, French in India, 445–447. »

36 Parkinson, War, 62; Wickwires, Cornwallis, Imperial Years, 177–179. »

37 Low, Indian Navy, 1.202–204. »

38 Ibid, 206. »

39 Ibid, 202. »

40 Ibid, 204–206. »

41 Parkinson, War, 69–70. »

42 Ibid, 74–75. »

43 Ibid, 75; Clowes, Royal Navy, 4.487–488. »

44 Rainier is the central figure in Parkinson’s history, and a new consideration of his time in the east is in Peter A. Ward, British Naval Power in the East, 1794–1805: The Command of Admiral Peter Rainier, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2013. »

45 Clowes, Royal Navy, 4.280–281; Parkinson, War, 80–81. ‘Capture of the Cape’, The Naval Chronicle, ed. Nicholas Tracy, 5 vols, London 1998, I, 138–143.

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