Generals and Admirals: The Story of Amphibious CommandLongmans, Green, 1952 - 192 sider |
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Side 11
... perhaps be noted that of this council of eight only two had been regularly connected with the navy — the Lord Admiral himself , whose sea - going experience had not been extensive , and Lord Thomas Howard , a younger member of the same ...
... perhaps be noted that of this council of eight only two had been regularly connected with the navy — the Lord Admiral himself , whose sea - going experience had not been extensive , and Lord Thomas Howard , a younger member of the same ...
Side 13
... perhaps get information from captured vessels . It became not uncommon in later days to speak slightingly of councils of war , and even to deride them with such phrases as " councils of war never fight . " But they were , of course ...
... perhaps get information from captured vessels . It became not uncommon in later days to speak slightingly of councils of war , and even to deride them with such phrases as " councils of war never fight . " But they were , of course ...
Side 45
... perhaps excessively so , in being able to do things by the book — by rules , that is , formulated for campaign- ing not against isolated Spanish garrisons in the tropics but on the battlefields of Flanders . And he seems to have been ...
... perhaps excessively so , in being able to do things by the book — by rules , that is , formulated for campaign- ing not against isolated Spanish garrisons in the tropics but on the battlefields of Flanders . And he seems to have been ...
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HOWARD AND ESSEX AT CADIZ | 7 |
THE SPANISH CAMPAIGNS OF QUEEN ANNES WAR | 19 |
VERNON AND WENTWORTH IN THE WEST INDIES | 38 |
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Generals and Admirals: The Story of Amphibious Command John Creswell Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1977 |
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