The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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... American conflict are of political and military , rather than of naval interest . Until the entry of France and Spain in 1778 the issue of this domestic rebellion was fought out on land , the only function of the Navy being to convoy ...
... American conflict are of political and military , rather than of naval interest . Until the entry of France and Spain in 1778 the issue of this domestic rebellion was fought out on land , the only function of the Navy being to convoy ...
Side 199
... American victories was heard with con- sternation at home , where naval superiority was by now taken for granted . As soon as the Peninsular War was over , ships and men were sent across the Atlantic . Before the end of 1813 British ...
... American victories was heard with con- sternation at home , where naval superiority was by now taken for granted . As soon as the Peninsular War was over , ships and men were sent across the Atlantic . Before the end of 1813 British ...
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... American destroyers were sent in response to Sims's re- quest for thirty , American help slowly developed from a trickle into a torrent . So successful was the co - operation with American forces at Queenstown that for the first time in ...
... American destroyers were sent in response to Sims's re- quest for thirty , American help slowly developed from a trickle into a torrent . So successful was the co - operation with American forces at Queenstown that for the first time in ...
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