Excerpt from Britain's Naval Power: A Short History of the Growth of the British Navy, From the Earliest Times to TrafalgarAT the instance of my old friend Mr. Aldous, so well known for his services on h.m.s. Britannia, I warmly recommend the work of his colleague, Mr. Hamilton Williams, to readers of every class. To the rising generation especially it should be valu able. There is not, so far as I know, any other short Naval History in existence, certainly there is none on which the same pains and study of authorities have been bestowed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.