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Author : William Milbourne James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British Navy in Adversity written by William Milbourne James and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Milbourne James
Publisher : Scholars Bookshelf
ISBN 13 : 9780945726296
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The British Navy in Adversity written by William Milbourne James and published by Scholars Bookshelf. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2005 Scholar's Bookshelf Reprint Edition. A remarkably comprehensive and well informed study originally published in 1926 and written by a Royal Navy captain who focused on the challenge presented to British seapower by the American Revolution with its issues of international maritime warfare, challenges to the Admiralty which had let the Royal Navy fall behind its rivals, neutrality, commerce, and other questions. The author presents a narrative history of British naval operations around the world during this time, the military and civilian leaders, strategies, and overall results. Extensive documentary material includes lists of commissioned ships. Many illustrations and maps. Reprint edition. 2005: 459 pages, softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)
Author : William Milburne James
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The British Navy in adversity written by William Milburne James and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clive Wilkinson
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830429
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century written by Clive Wilkinson and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prominent in building Britain's maritime empire in the eighteenth century, the Royal Navy also had a significant impact on politics, public finance and the administrative and bureaucratic development of the British state. The Navy was the most expensive branch of the state, and its effective funding and maintenance was a problem that taxed the ingenuity of a succession of politicians, naval officers and bureaucrats. The Navy, in many ways a victim of its own success, grew faster than the infrastructure that supported it and the public purse that funded it. By the middle of the century the difficulties this growth created had become critical, and the challenge this presented was taken up by Admiralty Boards led by Anson, Egmont, Hawke and Sandwich. Resolving these problems introduced administrative reforms and innovations in the Navy's administration and in public finance, some of which pre-figured later bureaucratic development. There was however a political price to pay, when the management of the Navy and its apparent unpreparedness for the War of American Independence made the Earl of Sandwich and the Navy a focus for political opposition to an unpopular government and a disappointing war."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : W. M. James
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The British Navy in Adversity written by W. M. James and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Syrett
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570032387
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (323 download)
Download or read book The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War written by David Syrett and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spain and the Netherlands. In this operational history of a period that proved to be a turning point for one of the world's great naval powers, David Syrett presents a saga of battles, blockades, great fleet cruises and, above all, failures and lost opportunities. He explains that the British government severely underestimated the Americans' maritime strength and how that error led to devastating consequences. The seemingly invincible navy failed to muster even one decisive victory during the extensive naval conflict.
Author : ROLAND GREENE USHER (JR.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF THE BRITISH NAVY DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. written by ROLAND GREENE USHER (JR.) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Thomas
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 085052623X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy written by David Thomas and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1998-12-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable and up-to-date reference book listing every battle honour awarded to ships of the Royal Navy. Although the honours go back to the Spanish Armada in 1588, surprisingly the system was not officially sanctioned until 1954.
Author : Eugene L. Rasor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313073112
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book English/British Naval History to 1815 written by Eugene L. Rasor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English/British have always been known as the sailor race with hearts of oak: the Royal Navy as the Senior Service and First Line of Defense. It facilitated the motto: The sun never set on the British Empire. The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated bibliography supplies entries that explore the influence of the English/British Navy through its history. This survey will provide a major reference guide for students and scholars at all levels. It incorporates evaluative, qualitative, and critical analysis processes, the essence of historical scholarship. Each one of the 4,124 annotated entries is evaluated, assessed, analyzed, integrated, and incorporated into the historiographical scholarship.
Author : A. B. McLeod
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 184383751X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book British Naval Captains of the Seven Years' War written by A. B. McLeod and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses captains' career development, the opportunities for making money and reputation, how they looked after their crews, and how they were controlled by the Admiralty. It argues that the navy in this period was highly efficient, with promotion being primarily based on merit.
Author : Sir William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (595 download)
Download or read book The British Navy in Adversity written by Sir William James and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248836
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution written by Sam Willis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans—to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, of course, off the eastern seaboard of America. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in so many different theaters. In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history. This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the rise and fall of the British Empire.
Author : Geoffrey Till
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135774153
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Development of British Naval Thinking written by Geoffrey Till and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Britain's leading naval historians and analysts have come together to produce an investigation of the development of British naval thinking over the past three centuries, from the sailing ship era to the present day.
Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627790446
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The British Are Coming written by Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.
Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069734
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (697 download)
Download or read book History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The rising sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942 chronicles the difficult early months of the campaign in the Pacific, detailing the navy's reverses at Wake Island, in the Philippines, and along the Malay Barrier.
Author : Jonathan R. Dull
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080322267X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Age of the Ship of the Line written by Jonathan R. Dull and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called ships of the line dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost among the great naval powers were Great Britain and France, whose advanced economies could support large numbers of these expensive ships. This book, the first joint history of these great navies, offers a uniquely impartial and comprehensive picture of the two forces their shipbuilding programs, naval campaigns, and battles, and their wartime strategies and diplomacy. Jonathan R. Dull is the author of two award-winning histories of the French navy. Bringing to bear years of study of war and diplomacy, his book conveys the fine details and the high drama of the age of grand and decisive naval conflict. Dull delves into the seven wars that Great Britain and France, often in alliance with lesser naval powers such as Spain and the Netherlands, fought between 1688 and 1815. Viewing war as most statesmen of the time saw it as a contest of endurance he also treats the tragic side of the Franco-British wars, which shattered the greater security and prosperity the two powers enjoyed during their brief period as allies.
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Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4607 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book American Revolution [5 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 4607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of the American Revolution, this definitive scholarly reference covers the causes, course, and consequences of the war and the political, social, and military origins of the nation. This authoritative and complete encyclopedia covers not only the eight years of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) but also the decades leading up to the war, beginning with the French and Indian War, and the aftermath of the conflict, with an emphasis on the early American Republic. Volumes one through four contain a series of overview essays on the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution, followed by impeccably researched A–Z entries that address the full spectrum of political, social, and military matters that arose from the conflict. Each entry is cross-referenced to other entries and also lists books for further reading. In addition, there is a detailed bibliography, timeline, and glossary. A fifth volume is devoted to primary sources, each of which is accompanied by an insightful introduction that places the document in its proper historical context. The primary sources help readers to understand the myriad motivations behind the American Revolution; the diplomatic, military, and political maneuvering that took place during the conflict; and landmark documents that shaped the founding and early development of the United States.
