Navies in History

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Naval Institute Press, 1998 - 267 pages
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This general history of the world's navies treats all major powers through the ages, from the Minoans in 2000 B.C. to the Americans in A.D. 2000. It was written both to serve as an introduction for the general reader and student and to broaden the historical perspective of specialists and naval professionals by questioning why some navies succeed and others fail. Calling attention to the continuities and contrasts of naval policies and actions, author Clark Reynolds covers major and limited wars, fleet actions, commerce warfare, naval diplomacy, deterrence, strategy, tactics, and technology. Such comprehensive coverage is rare--most naval histories focus on big wars and battles and scarcely treat economic, political, and ideological factors. This study is also the first to thoroughly examine the roles of navies during and since the Cold War.

The book opens with a brief overview of the functions of navies and then is divided chronologically into the following chapters: Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, Iberian Global Empires, Dutch Naval Mastery, the French Naval Challenge, British Naval Supremacy, the War of the American Revolution, the Age of Nelson, the British Pax, the American Civil War, Naval Strategists and Arms Races, World War I, Naval Arms Control, World War II in the Atlantic, World War II in the Pacific, and the American Pax. The narrative is enhanced by essays on such special topics as life at sea, the advent of steam and steel, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Principal naval leaders are highlighted. Illustrations and diagrams of selected naval battles and warships, maps, and a list of suggested readings add to the text.

 

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Table des matières

Battle of Salamis
19
The Spanish Armada
42
Four Days Fight
54
Fleet in Being
62
Battle of the Virginia Capes
86
Battle of Trafalgar
100
The Lower Deck
106
Assault on Veracruz
116
Mahan and Corbett
140
Battle of Jutland
162
The Aircraft Carrier
172
Admiral Ernest J King
190
Battle of Midway
202
Cuban Missile Blockade
224
Appendix 1
237
Further Reading
245

Monitor and Merrimack
126
Naval Strategists and Arms Races 18661914
137
Acknowledgments
253
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Page 1 - ... than they were, and lack of skill will make them even less venturesome. Seamanship, just like anything else, is an art. It is not something that can be picked up and studied in one's spare time; indeed, it allows one no spare time for anything else.
Page 47 - Dias with being the first to round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa in 1488.
Page 82 - Indian colonies and shipping. France improved its naval skills under a series of aggressive admirals in American waters, including operations out of Boston to support the patriots.
Page 85 - French squadron at Newport had departed, Graves sailed from New York next day, 31 August, hoping to intercept de Grasse off the Chesapeake Bay.
Page 82 - British fleet avoided contact, instead skillfully maneuvering until the disease-ridden enemy crews became too exhausted to keep up. France and Spain thereupon abandoned their invasion scheme, hoping to resurrect it later. This was not to be because Kempenfelt's policy remained in force until new construction began to restore British naval superiority. "Flying squadrons...
Page 66 - War; the War of the Spanish Succession was known as Queen Anne's War; and the War of the Austrian Succession as King George's War.
Page 85 - Cornwallis in Virginia. They dispatched a ship to de Grasse in the Caribbean urging him to actively participate in their campaign; de Grasse replied by the same vessel in the affirmative.

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Clark G. Reynolds, was professor emeritus of the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He is also the author of On the Warpath in the Pacific: Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers and Admiral John H. Towers: The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy, both published by the Naval Institute Press.

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