Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century write by Sam Willis. This book was released on 2008. Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea under sail; our knowledge of tactics is largely based upon the ideas of contemporary theorists rather than practitioners] who knew little of the realities of sailing warfare, and our knowledge of command is similarly flawed. In this book the author presents new evidence from contemporary sources that overturns many old assumptions and introduces a host of new ideas. In a series of thematic chapters, following the rough chronology of a sea fight from initial contact to damage repair, the author offers a dramatic interpretation of fighting at sea in the eighteenth century, and explains in greater depth than ever before how and why sea battles (including Trafalgar) were won and lost in the great Age of Sail. He explains in detail how two ships or fleets identified each other to be enemies; how and why they manoeuvred for battle; how a commander communicated his ideas, and how and why his subordinates acted in the way that they did. SAM WILLIS has lectured at Bristol University and at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. He is also the author of Fighting Ships, 1750-1850(Quercus).
Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail
Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail write by Bernard Ireland. This book was released on 2000. Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covering the classic era of sailing ship warfare from the mid-eighteenth century to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail reveals how warships were built, sailed, and fought in the era made popular today by the novels of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester. The often dense technical detail of these works is explained here for the general reader through text and illustrations that bring the period vividly to life. Through his discussions of single-ship actions, fleet operations, famous commanders, and the day-to-day routines of the men who worked the ships, Bernard Ireland investigates how the navy of King George III came to dominate the high seas, ushering in a century of British maritime supremacy. Acclaimed naval artist Tony Gibbons illustrates every type of sailing warship from ships of the line, frigates, and sloops to privateers' schooners, bomb ketches, and xebecs.
Fighting at Sea
Fighting at Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fighting at Sea write by Douglas Malcolm McLean. This book was released on 2008. Fighting at Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handsome illustrated book, a collaboration by six Canadian, British and American naval historians, consists of studies of naval battles or operations -- three from the age of sail and three from the age of steam. With its detailed analysis of naval warfare, this is a book that will appeal to all students of naval history as well as general readers.
The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution
The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution write by Sam Willis. This book was released on 2016-02-15. The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
War at Sea in the Age of Sail (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
War at Sea in the Age of Sail (Smithsonian History of Warfare) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War at Sea in the Age of Sail (Smithsonian History of Warfare) write by Andrew Lambert. This book was released on 2005-08-23. War at Sea in the Age of Sail (Smithsonian History of Warfare) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our fascination with the drama of war at sea is as strong today as it was in the heyday of the sailing ship.This book, written by one of the world's foremost authors on naval warfare, describes the dramatic battles of an age when sail was supreme. Andrew Lambert's comprehensive history examines key naval conflicts from the highest strategic level right down to the experience of the ordinary sailor. Fully illustrated throughout, this book incorporates computer-generated cartography that brings the sea battles to life. An in-depth look at ship design and the "floating culture" onboard The Anglo-Dutch Wars of 1650–74, when English commanders challenged Dutch sea power with superior speed, close quarters fighting, and fireships The rise and fall of the French Navy under the Sun King, Louis XIV The Napoleonic Wars, the defeat of the French fleet, and the rise of British Royal Navy hero Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
