The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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Side 14
... going to Iceland ' by needle and stone ' , i.e. the loadstone , hence Chaucer's word for pilotage , ' lodemenage ' . The Elizabethan compass was a 32 - point card with a magnetic needle attached . The question of magnetic variation was ...
... going to Iceland ' by needle and stone ' , i.e. the loadstone , hence Chaucer's word for pilotage , ' lodemenage ' . The Elizabethan compass was a 32 - point card with a magnetic needle attached . The question of magnetic variation was ...
Side 37
... had driven the English out of the Baltic , where ' our Russian trade is going to ruin ' . Even more serious was their supremacy in Eastern trade after the massacre of Amboyna in 1623 , which drove the English 37 THE DUTCH WARS.
... had driven the English out of the Baltic , where ' our Russian trade is going to ruin ' . Even more serious was their supremacy in Eastern trade after the massacre of Amboyna in 1623 , which drove the English 37 THE DUTCH WARS.
Side 38
... going into liquidation . The affairs of the Levant Company and of the colonies growing up in America are all we can point to with satisfaction during a period of stagnation in overseas trade which explains the efforts made later under ...
... going into liquidation . The affairs of the Levant Company and of the colonies growing up in America are all we can point to with satisfaction during a period of stagnation in overseas trade which explains the efforts made later under ...
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THE DUTCH WARS | 36 |
THE STUART NAVY | 53 |
THE WARS OF WILLIAM AND ANNE | 74 |
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