A History of Sea PowerThis naval history includes maps, diagrams and illustrations, as well as detailed information about various weapons on the naval ships, including "y guns"--arms mounted on the Y-axis of the ships. |
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action Admiral Ęgean ahead Allied American Antony Arabs Armada armored cruisers army Athenian Athens attack batteries battle cruisers battleships Blake blockade British campaign Cape captains captured Carthage Carthaginian century Channel Christian coast colonies command commerce Constantinople convoy crews cruise deck defeat defense destroyed destroyers division Doria dromons Dutch east empire enemy enemy's engaged England English fighting fire flagship flotilla followed force fought France French galleasses galleon galleys German Grand Fleet Greek Greek fire Gulf Gulf of Corinth guns harbor High Seas Fleet invasion island land later light cruisers loss Mediterranean miles naval navy Nelson oars Octavius Persian Phoenicians Phormio port quinquereme rear Roman Rome routes Russian sail Salamis Saracen sea power ships shore side Spain Spanish speed squadron straits submarine superior tactics tion torpedo trade transports triremes Tromp troops Turkish Turks Venetian Venice vessels victory warfare wind
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Page 415 - Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point. But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.
Page 256 - I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes...
Page 255 - I do not see the great risk of such a detachment, and with the remainder to attempt the business at Copenhagen. The measure may be thought bold, but I am of opinion the boldest measures are the safest; and our Country demands a most vigorous exertion of her force, directed with judgment.
Page 163 - October fifty reached Corunna, bearing ten thousand men stricken with pestilence and death. Of the rest some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen of the Scottish Isles, the kernes of Donegal and Galway, all had their part in the work of murder and robbery. Eight thousand Spaniards perished between the Giant's Causeway and the Blaskets. On a strand near Sligo an English captain numbered eleven hundred corpses which had...
Page 292 - will change the whole character of the war; she will destroy, seriatim, every naval vessel; she will lay all the cities on the seaboard under contribution. I shall immediately recall Burnside; Port Royal must be abandoned. I will notify the governors and municipal authorities in the North to take instant measures to protect their harbors.
Page 152 - Majesty should hereby enter into a war presently, yet were she better to do it now, while she may make the same out of her realm, having the help of the people of Holland, and before the King of Spain shall have consummated his conquests in...
Page 165 - Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore, Strike et when your powder's runnin' low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven, An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago." Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come, (Capten, art tha sleepin...
Page 127 - ... in the setting up of our royal ships, the errors of other nations being far more excusable than ours. For the kings of England have for many years been at the charge to build and furnish a navy of powerful ships for their own defence, and for the wars only ; whereas the French, the Spaniards, the Portugals, and the Hollanders (till of late) have had no proper fleet belonging to their princes or states.
Page 330 - the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly Powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire," He was successful in obtaining the assent of the other Powers to the policy thus announced.
Page 271 - ... such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the Enemy to Battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive; I have therefore made up my mind to keep the Fleet in that position of sailing (with the exception of the First and Second in Command) that the Order of Sailing is to be the Order of Battle...