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Excerpt from A Chat About the Navy UR Navy is the finest fighting force on earth - but there is not enough of it. When Trafalgar was fought the population of the empire was twice what that of London alone is now. Since then the people have increased thirty-fold, and yet the Navy of 1805 had three times as many ships, and twice as many men, as our Navy in 1891. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This vintage work contain a comprehensive guide to all the fishes of Great Britain. Its object is to aid in the identification of species of fish native to Great Britain, whether sea-water, fresh-water, or estuarine. The chapters include a long index of local names, a systematic table of all the species, and a series of keys to the sub-classes, orders, families, genera, species, and noteworthy varieties, arranged in such a way that the task of...

William John Gordon was the author of How London Lives (1890), Foundry, Forge and Factory (1890), The Horse- World of London (1893) and Every-day Life on the Railroad (1898). "THE omnibuses are the most characteristic feature of London, and they increase, while the cabs decrease. What London would be like without them a recent strike gave us the opportunity of knowing, and there can be no doubt that from an aesthetic point of view its streets ...

The U.S. Navy faces uncertainty about the degree to which it will have to prepare for a high-end future conflict versus the so-called Long War. To help the Navy understand how critical near- mid-, and far-term trends in the United States, China, and Iran might influence U.S. security decisions in general and the Navy1s investments in particular, RAND examined emerging domestic and regional nonmilitary trends in each of the three countries.