The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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Side 80
... north and south seas of America as to prevent any returns of money from thence except in our own bottoms . This is what best becomes us to do as a Maritime Power . ' 3 The argument harks back to Elizabethan days , but it also points ...
... north and south seas of America as to prevent any returns of money from thence except in our own bottoms . This is what best becomes us to do as a Maritime Power . ' 3 The argument harks back to Elizabethan days , but it also points ...
Side 114
... North West Passage , this time from its supposed entrance in the North Pacific . By one of the fastest and best deserved promo- tions on record , he was now a Captain . Having sailed via the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand to discover ...
... North West Passage , this time from its supposed entrance in the North Pacific . By one of the fastest and best deserved promo- tions on record , he was now a Captain . Having sailed via the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand to discover ...
Side 118
... North rather than Sandwich that the blame for the shortcomings of the Navy must be placed , though it may be argued that Sandwich was guilty for not resigning as a protest against the disarmament policy which the former imposed upon him ...
... North rather than Sandwich that the blame for the shortcomings of the Navy must be placed , though it may be argued that Sandwich was guilty for not resigning as a protest against the disarmament policy which the former imposed upon him ...
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