This lesson is as applicable to-day as it ever was.Concluding When Fighting Sail Matured,our selection from The Influence of Seapower Upon History

The third day Monk continued retreating to the westward.Continuing When Fighting Sail Matured,our selection from The Influence of Seapower Upon

The battle indicated the lack of subordination and of military feeling which has been charged against the Dutch officers as a body; no signs of which

This was the position of the Dutch fleet at daylight of June 11, 1666; and although not expressly so stated, it is likely, from the whole tenor of the

It was this war that for the first time the close-hauled line-of-battle was undeniably adopted as the fighting order of the fleets.Continuing When

Those who are familiar with the theories and discussions of our own day on the subject of fleet tactics and weapons, will recognize in this short

Those who are familiar with the theories and discussions of our own day on the subject of fleet tactics and weapons, will recognize in this short

The war between the two sea States was wholly maritime and had the general characteristics of all such wars. Three great battles were

Who pointed out to Louis that to turn the arms of France against Egypt would give her, in the dominion of the Mediterranean and the control of Eastern