The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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Side 64
... King's spendthrift nature , the financial history of the Navy staggers from one crisis to another . A year after the Restora- tion Pepys was writing in his diary : ' God knows ! the King is not able to set out five ships at this present ...
... King's spendthrift nature , the financial history of the Navy staggers from one crisis to another . A year after the Restora- tion Pepys was writing in his diary : ' God knows ! the King is not able to set out five ships at this present ...
Side 80
... King ' [ wrote Swift ] ' was a General but not an Admiral , and although King of England , a native of Hol- land . . . . It was the kingdom's misfortune that the sea was not the Duke of Marlborough's element . . . . With half the charge ...
... King ' [ wrote Swift ] ' was a General but not an Admiral , and although King of England , a native of Hol- land . . . . It was the kingdom's misfortune that the sea was not the Duke of Marlborough's element . . . . With half the charge ...
Side 84
... King of England , national sentiment supported William in joining yet another Grand Alliance ' to reduce the exorbitant power of France ' . Just before the War of the Spanish Succes- sion broke out the King died and the direction of the ...
... King of England , national sentiment supported William in joining yet another Grand Alliance ' to reduce the exorbitant power of France ' . Just before the War of the Spanish Succes- sion broke out the King died and the direction of the ...
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