Numerous footnotes in the History, specifying the names of ships in fleets, and of their commanders in various battles, have been omitted, as not necessary to the present purpose, though eminently proper and indeed indispensable to an extensive work of general reference and of encyclopaedic scope, such as the History is.

Certain notes retained with the initials W.L.C.are due to the editor of that work.
A.T.

MAHAN.
DECEMBER, 1912.
CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE.
v LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xix LIST OF MAPS xxi LIST OF BATTLE-PLANS xxiii.