. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. ed by Charnock: Journ. of Sir G. Rooke (Navy Eec. Soc.); Gazettes, 3858-3863; Du Mee, Caartevan de Landingh, etc; Journal of Almonde, and Disps. of Van der Goes, in Archiefvan der Marine; Chandlers Debates, iii. ; St. Philippe; Mems. pour IHist. dEsj).i. 201; De Quincy, Hist. :\Iilit. iii. 717 ; Santa Cruz, Reflects. viii. 93; Burchett,Xav. Hist. 627; Comp. Hist, of Europe for 1702, 388; Oldmixon, Hist, of theStuarts, ii. 291; Anns, of Q. Anne, i. 134 ; Burnet, Hist, of Own Times, ii. 322; Life of Sir G. Rooke: Guerin, iv. 11
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. ed by Charnock: Journ. of Sir G. Rooke (Navy Eec. Soc.); Gazettes, 3858-3863; Du Mee, Caartevan de Landingh, etc; Journal of Almonde, and Disps. of Van der Goes, in Archiefvan der Marine; Chandlers Debates, iii. ; St. Philippe; Mems. pour IHist. dEsj).i. 201; De Quincy, Hist. :\Iilit. iii. 717 ; Santa Cruz, Reflects. viii. 93; Burchett,Xav. Hist. 627; Comp. Hist, of Europe for 1702, 388; Oldmixon, Hist, of theStuarts, ii. 291; Anns, of Q. Anne, i. 134 ; Burnet, Hist, of Own Times, ii. 322; Life of Sir G. Rooke: Guerin, iv. 112 : Europ. Merc (1702) 315. 1703.] SHOVELL TO THE MEDITERRANEAN. 387 Sir Stafford Fairborne (K.), John Graydon (W.), John Leake (B.) ;and Bear-Admirals George Byng (E.), Thomas Dilkes (W.), andBasil Beaumont (B.). The naval operations of 1703 were not of great Sir George Eooke a large fleet cruised in the Channel and theBay of Biscay in May and June; and portions of it were from timeto time detached on various services; but, although the enemy was. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, SIK GEORGE EOOKE, KT. {From Bartolczzis engraving, after a miniature by J. Faber, painted in 1703, whenRooke was fifty-three years of age.) inconvenienced and his coasts were harassed, no large body of hisships was encountered. Another great fleet, composed both of Dutch and of Englishmen-of-war, sailed for the Mediterranean on July 1st, under SirClowdisley Shovell, with orders to assist the revolted Cevennois,in the south of France; to do what might be possible towardsrestoring Sicily and Naples to the House of Habsburg; to 2 c 2 388 MAJOR OPERATIONS, 1660-1714. [1703. endeavour to enlist the Algerines, Tunisians, and Tripolitans againstFrance; to settle certain difficulties which had arisen at Leghorn;to convoy the trade; and, generally, to injure the cause of theenemy to the utmost. Sir Clowdisley, whose presence in theMediterranean had the effect of inducing the French fleet to liequietly in
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