The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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... hands , thereby diminishing the space re- quired for the storage of food . But a seaman of wide experi- ence contrasts life on board an English East Indiaman very favourably in comparison with life on board Dutch ships : ' Our English ...
... hands , thereby diminishing the space re- quired for the storage of food . But a seaman of wide experi- ence contrasts life on board an English East Indiaman very favourably in comparison with life on board Dutch ships : ' Our English ...
Side 85
... hands . The first move was to send Rooke to capture the place , but he was a Tory who had little use for this sort of war . He was , as Sir Winston Churchill has said , ' a sluggish , wary man , whose imagination had no room for great ...
... hands . The first move was to send Rooke to capture the place , but he was a Tory who had little use for this sort of war . He was , as Sir Winston Churchill has said , ' a sluggish , wary man , whose imagination had no room for great ...
Side 122
... hands - St . Vincent , Dominica , Grenada and later Tobago . Barrington had indeed captured and held St. Lucia against the French before Byron arrived to relieve him , but it was already obvious that the planters cared little about the ...
... hands - St . Vincent , Dominica , Grenada and later Tobago . Barrington had indeed captured and held St. Lucia against the French before Byron arrived to relieve him , but it was already obvious that the planters cared little about the ...
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action Admiralty allies American Anson Armada army attack Baltic battle battleships became began blockade Board of Admiralty Brest Britain British Cadiz called Cape Captain captured century Channel Fleet coast colonies command convoy Crimean War cruisers deck defeat defence Drake Duke Dutch East Elizabethan Empire enemy England English Europe fighting flagship force fought France French frigates galleasse galleon German Gibraltar Grand Fleet guns harbour hundred invasion island King land later lieutenant Lord High Admiral Marines maritime Mediterranean merchant midshipman Minorca modern Napoleon nation naval history naval officer navigation Nelson never North peace Peninsular War Pepys Pitt port Queen Royal Navy sail sailors Sandwich sea power seamen sent ships shore signal soon Spain Spanish squadron strategy submarines success tactics tion took Toulon trade treaty troops U.S. Navy victory Vincent voyage warship West Indies