Dreadnought

  Holstein and, 125–27

  Bleichroder, Gerson, 797–98

  Boers:

  Germany and, 221–24

  Great Trek of, 216

  Jameson Raid and, 218–21

  Boer War, 180, 271–75, 281, 283, 292–94, 296, 321, 325–26, 338–39, 432, 434, 550–58

  Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 307

  and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 627–28, 630

  British tactics in, 307–8, 553n, 554–56

  Campbell-Bannerman and, 550–52, 554–57, 574–75

  Churchill on, 764–66

  Daily Telegraph crisis and, 685–87, 689

  end of, 310

  Jameson Raid and, 271

  Khaki Election and, 288–89, 552

  Liberals and, 550–52, 554–55, 557, 587

  Lloyd George and, 550, 560, 562

  and reorganization of British Army, 453, 466

  Bonar Law, Andrew, 662, 893, 906

  Borden, Sir Robert, 828–29

  Bosnia:

  Austrian annexation of, 604–8, 684, 693

  and opening Dardanelles to Russian warships, 603–4

  Botha, Louis, 563–64, 765

  Bötticher, Karl von, 97

  Boulanger, Georges, 78

  Bourke, Maurice, 394–95

  Boxer Rebellion, 275–87

  Bridgeman, Sir Francis:

  Churchill and, 778–79

  Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 535–36

  gunnery and, 787

  Britannia, H.M.S., 152–56

  cadets trained on, 383–84, 392

  Broderick, St. John, 450, 554, 628

  Buchanan, James, 9

  Buchanan, Sir George, 845, 890

  Bulgaria, Balkan Wars and, 838–39

  Buller, Sir Redvers, 272, 274, 321, 338

  Bülow, Adolf, 139

  Bülow, Bernhard von (elder), 126, 140–41

  Bülow, Prince Bernhard von (younger), xxiii, 102–3, 106, 116–18, 138–49, 176, 697

  accession to chancellorship of, 147–48

  Agadir Crisis and, 741–42

  alleged homosexuality of, 676n

  ambition of, 669

  Anglo-French Entente and, 343, 349, 352, 354–56, 588

  Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 245, 266–67, 270, 292, 300–302, 304–6, 309, 341, 343, 345

  Anglo-German naval talks and, 700–702

  Anglo-Russian Entente and, 595, 598, 600

  anti-Semitism and, 798

  background of, 138–43

  Ballin-Cassel meetings and, 801

  Bethmann and, 703, 705

  Bismarck and, 70, 103, 140–41, 146

  Boer War and, 272

  Bosnia Crisis and, 605–8

  Boxer Rebellion and, 282–83, 285

  Chamberlain and, 266–70, 307–9

  Daily Telegraph crisis and, 684–94, 718

  Eckardstein and, 243

  Edward VII and, 18, 655–56

  Empress Victoria and, 109–10, 145

  Eulenburg and, 143, 145–47, 149, 666–67, 669–71, 674–79

  German colonialism and, 135

  Hohenlohe and, 120, 122, 142, 144–47

  Holstein and, 126, 128, 130–32, 139, 142–43, 146–48, 369, 664, 843

  Jagow and, 841

  Kiderlen and, 715–16, 718, 728, 743

  Kruger Telegram and, 224, 231

  Morocco crisis and, 352, 354–68, 663–64, 729

  naval expansion and, 171, 179, 244, 269

  physical collapse of, 368

  Queen Victoria and, 297, 299–300

  resignation of, 694–95, 702, 705

  resignation threats of, 688–89, 694

  Russian posting of, 141–42

  Samoan crisis and, 258, 262

  Waldersee and, 284

  Wettmacht and, 138

  wife’s influence on, 142–43

  William II and, 138–40, 143–49, 151n-52n, 158, 263, 265–68, 680–81, 694–95

  Bülow, Princess Maria, 142–43, 693, 695

  Burns, John, xxviii, 560, 614, 900

  Buxton, Anthony, 489n

  Byng, John, 441

  Caillaux, Joseph, 724, 740

  Cambon, Jules, 717–19, 722, 724

  Agadir Crisis and, 728–29, 738, 740–41, 743–44, 748, 790

  Austro-Serbian conflict and, 864

  Haldane Mission and, 811

  Cambon, Paul, 255–56, 309, 840

  Anglo-French Entente and, 342–44, 346–49, 589

  Anglo-French naval talks and, 826

  and German threat to France, 888–90, 892, 898, 900

  Morocco crisis and, 361, 365, 589–90

  Campbell, Charlotte Bruce, 547–48, 550, 552–53, 558–59, 564–65

  Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 289, 330, 425, 499, 547–66

  Anglo-French Entente and, 589

  Anglo-Russian Entente and, 597–98

  Asquith and, 549, 557–59, 563–66, 574–76

  background of, 547–50

  Balfour and, 555–57, 561–63

  Boer War and, 550–52, 554–57, 574–75

  and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 629, 638

  Churchill and, 560, 766

  and cutting military spending, 640

  death of, 565–66

  on disarmament, 562–63

  Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 528

  German naval expansion and, 696

  Grey and, 557–60, 587, 590, 593n

  Home Rule and, 556

  illnesses of, 557–59, 564–65

  Morocco crisis and, 589–91

  private life of, 552–53, 564–65

  Regulas Compact and, 557–60

  resignation of, 575

  social reform and, 644

  South Africa and, 563–64

  wife’s death and, 564–65

  Camperdown, H.M.S., Victoria rammed by, 393–95, 476

  Capelle, Eduard von, 862

  Caprivi, Georg Leo von, 101, 110–17, 175, 668–69, 716

  administrative style and purpose of, 111–12

  background of, 110, 112

  death of, 117

  German colonialism and, 137

  German Navy and, 162–63, 167

  Hohenlohe and, 112, 119–20

  Holstein and, 128, 131–33

  Reinsurance Treaty and, 113–15

  resignation threats of, 116–17, 119

  Salisbury and, 209

  Tirpitz and, 167

  Waldersee and, 111, 284

  Weltmacht and, 138

  Carol, King of Romania, 717, 839

  Carson, Sir Edward, 527

  Cassel, Sir Ernest, 575, 655

  Anglo-German naval talks and, 801–4, 810, 820–21

  background of, 792–94

  and British Fleet’s visit to Baltic ports, 850

  German naval expansion and, 801

  Cawdor, Lord, 405, 499

  battle cruisers and, 495

  Naval Scare and, 610

  Cecil, Lord Edward, 250n, 252

  Cecil, Lord Hugh, 331

  Cecile, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg, 362

  Chamberlain, Austen, 238, 312, 328, 332, 768

  Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 679

  Chamberlain, Joseph, xxvii, 232–46, 426n, 549

  Anglo-French Entente and, 343

  Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 243–47, 257, 260, 265–70, 291–92, 300–301, 303, 305–7, 309, 341, 343, 346, 348, 594

  Anglo-Japanese alliance and, 339–40

  background of, 191–92, 233–34

  Balfour and, 311–12, 321, 331–32

  Boer War and, 271–72, 289, 307–8, 321, 325–26, 550–52

  Bülow and, 266–70, 307–9

  China policy and, 241–43

  death of, 336n

  educational concerns of, 233, 237

  Fisher and, 440–42

  foreign policy interests of, 239–41

  Grey and, 583, 587

  home lif
e of, 238

  Home Rule and, 235–38

  illnesses and injuries of, 311

  Imperial Preference campaign of, 325–36, 555

  on isolationism, 241–42

  Jameson Raid and, 220–21, 229–30, 240–41, 244

  Khaki Election and, 289–91, 312, 325–26

  Kruger Telegram and, 240–41, 244

  oratory skills of, 235

  personal tragedies of, 234

  physical appearance of, 234

  Salisbury and, 189, 191–93, 232–33, 237, 244, 246

  Samoan crisis and, 257–58, 260–61, 270

  South Africa visited by, 327–29

  unionism of, 238–39

  Victoria’s death and, 298

  Victoria’s illness and, 296

  William II and, 241, 261, 264–65

  Chamberlain, Mary Endicott, 237–40, 243

  Childers, Erskine, 632–35

  Chinese Empire:

  Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 306

  Beresford’s visit to, 511–12

  Boxer Rebellion and, 275–87

  Chamberlain on, 241–43

  Fisher’s service in, 411–13, 415–16

  German interests in, 171, 242, 276

  Russian interests in, 242–43, 339

  Christian IX, King of Denmark, 9–10, 57–58, 108, 140, 479, 595

  Churchill, Clementine, 578, 773–75, 780

  Churchill, Jennie Jerome, 750–62

  Winston’s military career and, 759–62, 766

  Churchill, John Strange (Jack), 751, 754, 756–58, 818–19

  Churchill, Lord Randolph, 335

  death of, 758–59

  illnesses of, 757–58

  Margot Asquith and, 571–72

  political career of, 757

  Winston’s childhood and, 750–51, 753–54, 756

  Churchill, Winston, xxv, 542–43, 635n, 748–89, 818–37, 904

  on abandoning Mediterranean, 827–28

  Admiralty administration and, 769–89

  Admiralty appointment of, 748–49, 767–69

  Agadir Crisis and, 731, 735–37, 744, 748, 819

  ambition of, 759

  Anglo-French naval talks and, 825–27

  Anglo-German naval talks and, 802–4, 812–13, 820–21

  Asquith and, 576–77, 748–49, 766–67, 773–75, 778, 824, 833–36

  Austro-Serbian conflict and, 879, 889

  battle cruisers and, 784

  birth of, 750

  on Boer War, 764–66

  Bosnia Crisis and, 605

  and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 628

  and British Fleet’s visit to Baltic ports, 850

  Campbell-Bannerman and, 560, 766

  Cassel and, 793

  childhood of, 750–57

  common seamen and, 776–77

  early political career of, 759–60, 766–67

  education of, 752–56, 758–59

  exuberance of, 775–76

  and father’s illness and death, 758–59

  Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 531–32

  German Army maneuvers observed by, 818–19

  German naval expansion and, 819–20, 829

  and German policy toward Britain, 842–43

  and German threat to Belgium, 893, 907

  and German threat to France, 891n–92n, 898

  on German vs. British Navy, 820

  gunnery and, 786–87

  historical vision of, 788–89

  illnesses and injuries of, 754–55

  Imperial Preference debate and, 331, 335–36

  Khaki Election and, 290–91

  Lichnowsky and, 849

  military career of, 759–66

  Naval Estimates of, 821–25, 828–37, 848, 854

  Naval Holiday proposal of, 830–32, 847–48

  Naval Scare and, 609, 614–15, 618, 622, 624–25, 819

  officers and, 776–78

  oil-powered warships and, 784–85

  physical appearance of, 766

  political rise of, 769

  Queen Elizabeth and, 781–85

  Russo-German conflict and, 900

  uniqueness of, 749–50

  war plans and, 747–48

  World War I anticipated by, 854–55

  Clarke, Sir George, 453

  Cleveland, Grover, 237

  Clifden, Nellie, 10–11

  Coeper, Carl, 479, 485

  Conference of London, 839–41, 844

  Congress of Berlin, 70, 198–200

  Congress of Vienna, 47–48, 51

  Conrad von Hötzendorf, Count Franz, 607

  and assassination of Franz Ferdinand, 860

  Austro-Serbian conflict and, 857–58, 864

  Cromer, Lord, 343, 347–48

  Cromwell, Oliver, 318–19, 641, 781

  “Cult of the Monster Warship, The” (White), 488

  Cuniberti, Vittorio, 469, 474

  Curzon, Lord, 650, 659, 903

  Custance, Reginald, 445

  Daily Telegraph (London), 222

  Eulenburg Affair and, 663

  William II interview published by, 684–95, 705–6, 718, 801

  Daisy, Princess of Pless, 653, 798

  Defence of Philosophic Doubt, A (Balfour), 315

  Delcassé Théophile, 340, 366, 598

  Anglo-French Entente and, 342–50, 354, 356

  background of, 342

  Fashoda crisis and, 253–55, 342

  Morocco crisis and, 354–56, 359–63, 367, 663

  resignation of, 362–63, 367

  Denmark, Prussian invasion of, 12–14, 18, 32–33, 57–58, 65

  Derby, Lord, 205

  Eastern Question and, 197–98

  and exchange of territories between Britain and Germany, 209–10

  German colonialism and, 86–87

  Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of, 311

  Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 291, 301, 305–6

  background of, 190

  China policy and, 241

  Imperial Preference debate and, 329, 331–32

  Khaki Election and, 288

  Salisbury and, 189–90, 192–93, 201, 204

  Samoan crisis and, 260

  Dewar, K.G.B.:

  Dreadnought, 487–88

  on life of midshipmen and cadets, 383–84, 393

  on shipboard life, 396–97

  Dilke, Sir Charles, 87, 239, 605

  Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 198n

  Beresford and, 504

  Bismarck’s diplomacy and, 82–83

  Chamberlain and, 235

  Eastern Question and, 197, 199–200

  and opening Dardanelles to Russian warships, 603

  Salisbury and, 195–96, 200–201

  South Africa and, 216

  Victoria and, 21–22, 206

  Dreadnought, H.M.S., 467–90, 782

  armament of, 468–73, 484–85, 493

  armor of, 475–76, 478, 494

  Campbell-Bannerman on, 563

  construction of, 402, 461, 467–78, 480–82, 484–86, 490, 492–94, 520

  contractor’s trials of, 482

  cost of, 477, 832

  critics of, 487–89, 531

  first voyage of, 482–83

  genesis of, 469

  Germany and, 484–86, 489

  launching of, 478–80

  secrecy about details of, 484–85

  size of, 477–78

  speed of, 471–75, 485

  turbine power plant of, 474–75, 477, 481–82, 484–85

  turret-siting of, 472–73

  Warrior compared to, 413–14

  du Maurier, Guy, 638–39

  Dunraven, Lord, 152–53

  Eckardstein, Baron Hermann von, 130, 156, 212, 230, 241

  Anglo-French Entente and, 343, 345

  Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 291–92, 300–301, 304–6, 309, 341

  Boer War and, 274

  Boxer Rebe
llion and, 287

  Chamberlain and, 243–45, 257, 268

  Morocco crisis and, 356

  Samoan crisis and, 260–61

  Victoria’s illness and, 292, 296

  and William II’s visit to Britain, 263

  Edward VII, King of England (Bertie), 6–20, 35, 75, 140, 291

  accession of, 298

  Albert and, 7–8, 10–11, 13–14, 16

  Alexandra courted by, 11

  Alexandra’s illnesses and, 13

  Anglo-French Entente and, 344–46, 354, 364

  Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 305, 309

  Anglo-Japanese alliance and, 340

  Anglo-Russian Entente and, 595–96, 601–2

  appetite of, 15

  Asquith and, 575–76, 656

  Austro-Serbian conflict and, 879

  Balfour and, 311, 322

  Beresford and, 504–5, 507–10, 516

  birth of, 6, 23

  Boer War and, 272–75

  Bosnia Crisis and, 606

  and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 637

  and British occupation of Egypt, 83

  Bülow and, 18, 655–56

  Campbell-Bannerman and, 555–58, 565–66

  Cassel and, 793

  Chamberlain and, 234

  children of, 12

  death of, 655–57, 793

  Diamond Jubilee Review and, xxvii–xxxi

  Dreadnought and, 478–80, 482–84, 531, 563

  education of, 7–8

  Empress Victoria’s death and, 109

  First Hague Peace Conference and, 429

  Fisher and, 404, 406–7, 415, 450, 453, 455–58, 460–61, 499, 510, 655, 770

  Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 530–33, 535–36, 539–40

  Frederick III’s death and, 45, 207–8

  funeral of, 656–57

  German naval expansion and, 183, 801

  German Weltmacht and, 138

  Germany visited by, 18, 652–53

  House of Lords and, 645, 651, 654, 657–58

  illnesses of, 16–17, 310, 575, 651–55

  Imperial Preference debate and, 327–28

  Jennie Churchill and, 751

  Kruger Telegram and, 226

  laziness of, 8

  Marienbad visited by, 425

  Morocco crisis and, 356, 360, 365

  naval dress and, 376

  nicknames of, 15, 20

  1909 budget and, 654

  Queen Victoria and, 7–20, 23–24, 293, 297–99, 301

  Regulas Compact and, 558

  Schleswig-Holstein crisis and, 12–14, 18

  search for wife for, 9–10

  smoking enjoyed by, 15–16

  social life of, 14–16, 18–20

  travels of, 9, 17–19, 556

  upbringing of, 7–8

  wedding of, 12, 27

  William II and, 18, 27, 29, 106–8, 151–52, 154–58, 208–9, 211, 262–64, 267, 272–73, 297–301, 303, 529, 652–53, 656–57, 680–83, 697

  Winston Churchill and, 762, 764, 767, 770, 774, 776, 778

  womanizing of, 19–20

  yachting enjoyed by, 152–57

  Egypt, 631

  Beresford in, 504–8