Today's installment concludes When Fighting Sail Matured,our selection from The Influence of Seapower Upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan published

The suffering involved to England in such numerous captures, which must have caused great individual injury and discontent, did not really prevent the

Failing support of a base or a powerful fleet, the raider can only dash out hurriedly a short distance from home, and its blows, though painful,

More than any other this fight marks clearly the passage from former methods to the tactics of the end of the seventeenth century.Continuing When

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