This volume contains a brief record of some of the expeditions which were despatched from the shores of England at various periods during the latter part of the eighteenth and earlier portion of the nineteenth centuries -- adapted from the preface.

Expedition to Lorient, 1746 --First expedition to St. Malo, 1758 -- Second expedition to St. Malo, 1758 -- Siege and capture of Belleisle, 1761 -- Expedition to Quiberon, 1795 -- Expedition to Ostend, 1798 -- Combined British and Russian expedition to the Helder, 1799 -- Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807 -- Expedition to Walcheren, 1809 -- Expedition to Bergen-op-Zoom, 1813-1814.