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Excerpt from The Successors of DrakeMainly the work is concerned with naval history, but not so exclusively as the two previous volumes. Military affairs begin to intrude themselves. Indeed it is doubtful whether the naval and the military history of England should ever be written apart. The real importance of maritime power is its in¿uence on military Operations. This is the thesis which lies at the bottom Of all the teach ing with which Capt...

Excerpt from Drake and the Tudor Navy, Vol. 1 of 2: With a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime PowerThe conspicuous technical feature Of the maritime revolution which in the sixteenth century transferred the focus of the naval art from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic is the transition from galley warfare to warfare under sail, and the history Of that transition, of its causes, its development, and its results, is the history of the ...

Excerpt from Fighting Instruction, 1530-1816: Edited With Elucidations From Contemporary AuthoritiesAS to the general results, perhaps the most strik ing feature which the collection brings out is that sailing tactics was a purely English art. The idea that we borrowed originally from the -dutch is no longer tenable. The Dutch themselves do not even claim the invention of the line. Indeed in no foreign authority, either Dutch, French or Spanis...

Excerpt from A Note on the Drawings in the Possession of the Earl of Dartmouth, Illustrating the Battle of Sole Bay, May 28, 1672, and the Battle of the Texel, August 11, 1673Official letters and papers in the Record Office, which are very fully given in the Domestic Calendars, vols. Xii to xv.Narratives and journals of officers engaged, amongst Lord Dartmouth's mss., many of which are printed wholly or in part in the Historical mss. Commissio...

Excerpt from A Note on the Drawings in the Possession of the Earl of Dartmouth, Illustrating the Battle of Sole Bay, May 28, 1672, and the Battle of the Texel, August 11, 1673Official letters and papers in the Record Office, which are very fully given in the Domestic Calendars, vols. Xii to xv.Narratives and journals of officers engaged, amongst Lord Dartmouth's mss., many of which are printed wholly or in part in the Historical mss. Commissio...

Excerpt from England in the Seven Years' War, Vol. 2 of 2: A Study in Combined StrategySO far, the correct line for England to pursue had been comparatively clear and easy to follow, but when France, finding her first design for expanding the war ineffective, went a step further and decided to make a direct attack upon the British Islands, the case became more complex. The question at once arose whether the time had not now come for abandoning...

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About the Book Books about the History of Great Britain follow the historical developments and ultimate union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. After centuries of Roman rule, in 1066 England was invaded by the Normans, and in 1707 England, Scotland and Wales formed the United Kingdom. The British Empire came to occupy one-quarter of the earth's land surface, but was weakened by World War 1, and was dismantled shortly after Worl...

Excerpt from Some Principles of Maritime Strategy Navy. With a Histo of the Rise of England as a Maritime ower. With Portraits, Illustrations. And Maps. 2 vols. Crown 8va. 165. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct ...

Excerpt from England in the Seven Years War, Vol. 1 of 2: A Study in Combined Strategy IN the following pages an attempt has been made to present Pitt's War as it was seen and felt by the men who were concerned with its direction. In every Chancellery in Europe, as well as in our own Cabinet, this part of the widespread Seven Years' War was always spoken of as the Maritime War and it would seem that no useful apprehension of the way in which ...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about International Relations are concerned with trade, politics, diplomacy, and law at the level of inter-governmental relations. Titles include: A League of Nations: What are We Fighting For? Democracy Vs. Autocracy, America's Interests as Affected by the European War, An introduction to the study of international relations, British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and China, Chinese Foreign Policy, International ar...

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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from e...

Excerpt from Fighting Instructions: 1530-1816 Much of the Old learning which the volume con tains is of course of little more than antiquarian interest, but the bulk of it in the Opinion of those best able to judge should be found of living value. All systems of tactics must rest ultimately on the dominant weapon in use, and throughout the sailing period the dominant weapon was, as now, the gun. In face of so fundamental a resemblance no tact...

Drake and the Tudor Navy - With a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime Power, Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1917. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scienti...

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This five -volume history of the part played by the Royal Navy in the Great War is based chiefly on the records of the Historical Section of the Admiralty, with the full help of the German Admiralty. These records include telegrams to and from the Admiralty, reports from officers in command, minutes of proceedings of the War Cabinet and other state papers. It also makes use of allied ministers' conference records, ships' logs, signal logs, cap...

Excerpt from The Campaign of Trafalgar, Vol. 1 of 2: With Crafts and Diagrams In the most recent bibliography of the Waterloo campaign, that prepared by Professor Oman for the Cambridge Modern History, there appear little short of a score of works entirely devoted to its elucidation. For the Trafalgar campaign our English language cannot boast a single one. Of the battle itself there are studies innumerable, serious, fanciful, and anecdotic, ...