Maritime supremacy & the opening of the Western mind : naval campaigns that shaped the modern world, 1588-1782
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Maritime supremacy & the opening of the Western mind : naval campaigns that shaped the modern world, 1588-1782
J. Murray, 1999
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Maritime supremacy and the opening of the Western mind
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index
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Description
In the wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. This work charts the growth of linked strengths - fighting, trading, financial and constitutional - that made them so formidable.
Table of Contents
- Prehistory of modern sea power
- the Spanish Armada, 1588
- the Downs, 1639
- the Dutch Golden Age
- Sole Bay, 1672
- the Glorious Revolution, and Beachy Head, 1690
- Barfleur / La Houge, 1692
- Malaga, 1704
- Rule, Britannia
- Finisterre, 1747
- Quiberon Bay, 1759
- the American Revolution
- War of American Independence amd Chesapeake Bay, 1781
- the Saints, 1782, and the founding of the United States.
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