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Centred upon a man who never participated in combat operations during his sixty-year naval career, this volume depicts the routine peacetime operations of the mid-Victorian Royal Navy, operations that have received short shrift in naval histories, even though they have constituted the bulk of the service's mission during the past two centuries. Not surprisingly, the Navy operated in support of the liberal state and its agenda, as many of the documents in this collection make clear. Following the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, both Britain and the United States moved quickly to exploit new trade op

Admirals --- Milne, Alexander, --- Great Britain. --- History --- Great Britain --- History, Naval --- Admiral Sir Alexander Milne. --- Admiralty. --- Bahamas. --- Barbados. --- Bermuda. --- Blockade. --- Commodore Hugh Dunlop. --- Confederate States of America. --- Duke of Somerset. --- Earl Russell. --- Frederick Hutton. --- Jamaica. --- James Mason. --- Lord Sir Richard Dundas. --- Lords Commissioners. --- Mexico. --- Pax Britannica. --- Richard Hamilton. --- Trent Affair. --- USA. --- Viscount Lyons. --- West Indies. --- Yellow fever. --- the US Civil War. --- the Victorian Navy.