The indecisiveness of modern naval warfare.--The indecisiveness of modern land war.--Plans of invasion of the British Isles.--The struggle for the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century.--The influence of sea power on Indian history (1746-1802)--Napoleon and sea power.--The prophetic instinct in Nelson.--The state of Nelson's fleet before Trafalgar.--The British title to Malta.--Admiral Duckworth's failure at Constantinople in 1807.--Chivalry and the sea.Mode of access: Internet
"With one exception [Paul Jones] the essays here collected have appeared previously, at different ti...
The two ships, Bato (1806) and Brunswick (1805) wrecked in Simons Bay, South Africa, provide an oppo...
The Napoleonic Wars have provided generations of soldiers and sailors with lessons and case studies,...
The aim of this paper is to examine the conduct of war at sea at the time of Napoleon and to explore...
Written by British Royal Navy Admiral, Sir Cyprian Bridge, this collection of essays explains many a...
A. Naval: Historians and naval history, by Sir J. K. Laughton. Staff histories, by J. S. Corbett. Na...
Ten of the essays included in this volume first appeared in the Encyclopaedia britannica, the Times,...
The day's work of a soldier.--A war of unseen artillery.--Cavalry.--The nerves of an army.--How the ...
In The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, Alfred Thayer Mahan ar- gued that the effecti...
On the afternoon of 31 May 1916, the British grand fleet and the German High Sea Fleet met in the on...
Naval history,like military history, has until recently concerned itself largely with battles, or at...
This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth ...
Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the h...
Eighteenth-century naval ships were impressive infrastructures, but subjected to extraordinary strai...
Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achi...
"With one exception [Paul Jones] the essays here collected have appeared previously, at different ti...
The two ships, Bato (1806) and Brunswick (1805) wrecked in Simons Bay, South Africa, provide an oppo...
The Napoleonic Wars have provided generations of soldiers and sailors with lessons and case studies,...
The aim of this paper is to examine the conduct of war at sea at the time of Napoleon and to explore...
Written by British Royal Navy Admiral, Sir Cyprian Bridge, this collection of essays explains many a...
A. Naval: Historians and naval history, by Sir J. K. Laughton. Staff histories, by J. S. Corbett. Na...
Ten of the essays included in this volume first appeared in the Encyclopaedia britannica, the Times,...
The day's work of a soldier.--A war of unseen artillery.--Cavalry.--The nerves of an army.--How the ...
In The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, Alfred Thayer Mahan ar- gued that the effecti...
On the afternoon of 31 May 1916, the British grand fleet and the German High Sea Fleet met in the on...
Naval history,like military history, has until recently concerned itself largely with battles, or at...
This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth ...
Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the h...
Eighteenth-century naval ships were impressive infrastructures, but subjected to extraordinary strai...
Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achi...
"With one exception [Paul Jones] the essays here collected have appeared previously, at different ti...
The two ships, Bato (1806) and Brunswick (1805) wrecked in Simons Bay, South Africa, provide an oppo...
The Napoleonic Wars have provided generations of soldiers and sailors with lessons and case studies,...