The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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Side vi
... interest if it is realized where and why the battle was fought . It is in this sense that I have tried to link naval with national history , to combine the interest inherent in the former with its relevance to the political or literary ...
... interest if it is realized where and why the battle was fought . It is in this sense that I have tried to link naval with national history , to combine the interest inherent in the former with its relevance to the political or literary ...
Side 39
... interest was strong ; their pay was in arrears , and neither of the Stuarts had shown any personal interest in their affairs . The consequences of this loss of the fleet were very serious to Charles . At the start of the war the supply ...
... interest was strong ; their pay was in arrears , and neither of the Stuarts had shown any personal interest in their affairs . The consequences of this loss of the fleet were very serious to Charles . At the start of the war the supply ...
Side 68
... interest in maritime matters . Naval officers appear on the stage in Wycherley's Captain Manley and Congreve's Ben Legend , that ' stinking tar - barrel ' , as his lady - love calls him . Beside the official journals of commanders which ...
... interest in maritime matters . Naval officers appear on the stage in Wycherley's Captain Manley and Congreve's Ben Legend , that ' stinking tar - barrel ' , as his lady - love calls him . Beside the official journals of commanders which ...
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