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Symonds tells the story of five critical naval engagements that have changed the course of American history: Lake Erie (1813), Hampton Roads (1862), Manila Bay (1898), Leyte Gulf (1944) and the Gulf War (1991). He describes the significance of each action & the technical innovations that helped the victors.
Naval battles --- Battles, Naval --- Naval warfare --- War, Maritime --- Battles --- Naval history --- Sea control --- History. --- United States --- History, Naval --- History, Naval.
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Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a world of few roads and great disorder, the sea is the medium on which power is projected and wealth sought. Yet this confused period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied - it is little known and even less understood. Charles Stanton uses an innovative and involving approach to describe this fascinating but neglected facet of European medieval history. He depicts the development of maritime warfare from the end of the Roman Empire to the d
Naval battles --- Naval history --- Normans --- Northmen --- Historiography, Naval --- History, Naval --- Naval historiography --- Wars --- Historiography --- History --- Military history --- Sea-power --- Battles, Naval --- Naval warfare --- War, Maritime --- Battles --- Sea control --- To 1500
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"In the century after 1530 the empires of the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere: lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the salient feature of this conflict was a violent form of piracy practiced by the 'corsairs' of North African and Malta. It was fundamentally a war of unequal means, since the Habsburgs of Spain had too few good warships and the Ottomans too many bad ones. Christendom and Islam engaged in a war fought largely through the exercise of private violence: the Hospitaller Knights of Malta and ghazi captains of North Africa succeeded in imposing their crusading ethos on the Mediterranean. If a degree of futility loomed over these campaigns, it was nevertheless true that the Mediterranean witnessed a sustained conflict which in scale and intensity was far greater than that of any contemporary form of warfare at sea. Moreover the sea was never abandoned as, until at least 1620, large galley fleets continued to patrol the inland sea. The raiding methods employed by Elizabethan 'seadogs' like Sir Francis Drake would certainly not have worked in this theatre of arms, as the defences in Italy and North Africa were much more formidable than those of the Atlantic. Phillip Williams begins with a detailed examination of the oared warships used in these campaigns. He then explores the structures of political and military organization and the role of geography and the environment in shaping the fighting; stressing that the Italian territories were of vital significance to the Habsburgs of Spain. He considers the cultural and historical outlook of protagonists such as the Habsburg rulers Charles V and Philip II and the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, examining the extent to which the dictates of prudence triumphed over ideals of performing 'the service of God'. Providing a unique perspective on early modern maritime conflict, this book will be essential reading for all students and researchers of Mediterranean History and the early modern world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Merchant marine --- Sea control. --- Security measures. --- Control of the sea --- Maritime operations (Naval forces) --- Naval operations --- Operations, Naval --- Naval art and science --- Naval strategy --- Naval tactics --- Strategy --- Tactics --- Naval battles --- Mercantile marine --- Marine service --- Shipping
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Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.
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zeeslagen --- Roman history --- marines [soldiers] --- Romeinse oudheid --- naval architecture --- Shipping --- Polemology --- Sea power --- Rome --- Marine --- Romeinse Rijk --- Oorlogvoering --- Armed Forces. --- Rome (Empire). --- Navy --- History. --- C3 --- militaire geschiedenis (x) --- oudheid (x) --- Roma [gemeente in provincie Roma - IT] --- zee (x) --- haven --- 923.4 --- leger --- oorlogen --- geschiedenis --- Kunst en cultuur --- geschiedenis - het Romeinse rijk --- naval battles --- 932 --- zeevaart geschiedenis --- militaire geschiedenis --- Rome oudheid --- oudheid --- antiquité --- Romeinse geschiedenis
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This work covers naval strategy and operations in narrow seas, contending that blue-water navies must revise the view that a fleet capable of defeating an adversary on the open ocean will automatically do the same in narrow seas.
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weapons --- Armada --- Art --- history [discipline] --- Tachtigjarige Oorlog --- History of Spain --- Philip II [King of Spain] --- Elizabeth I [Queen of England] --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Spain --- England --- Armada, 1588 --- -Spanish Armada, 1588 --- Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 --- Exhibitions --- Great Britain --- History, Naval --- -Exhibitions. --- History --- -Exhibitions --- Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Espagne --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Espanya --- Espanha --- スペイン --- Supein --- イスパニア --- Isupania --- Spanish Armada, 1588 --- Exhibitions. --- zeeslagen --- naval battles
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