Seapower Ashore

Author : Peter Hore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049512950

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Seapower Ashore by Peter Hore Pdf

For more than two-hundred years the Royal Navy's dominance of the seas was complemented by its ability to project force ashore. In this book a group of prominent naval historians--Tom Pocock, Michael Duffy, Colin White, Andrew Lambert, Richard Brooks, and Chris Page--examine the naval brigade's role on land. Starting with Sidney Smith's defense of Acre in 1799, it continues through Nelson's Corsica campaign, the Indian Mutiny, the Anglo-Japanese War of 1863-4, the Crimean and Boer Wars, and both world wars. From little-known incidents during "Queen Victoria's Little Wars" to modern Tomahawk missile technology and littoral warfare, this rousing tribute is an essential addition to the Royal Navy canon.

Author : Geoffrey Till
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415622615

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Seapower by Geoffrey Till Pdf

This revised, updated and expanded edition of Geoffrey Till's acclaimed textbook provides an invaluable guide for anyone interested in the changing and crucial role of seapower in the 21st century.

Author : Michael H. H. Evans
Publisher : Potomac Books Incorporated
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0080347371

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Amphibious Operations by Michael H. H. Evans Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437912319

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Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower by Anonim Pdf

This report represents an historical first. Never before have the maritime forces of the U.S. -- the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard -- come together to create a unified maritime strategy. This strategy stresses an approach that integrates seapower with other elements of national power, as well as those of our friends and allies. It describes how seapower will be applied around the world to protect our way of life, as we join with other like-minded nations to protect and sustain the global system through which we prosper. The three services will secure the U.S. from direct attack; secure strategic access and retain global freedom of action; strengthen existing and emerging alliances and partnerships and establish favorable security conditions. Illus.

Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248838

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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution by Sam Willis Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857723444

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A History of the Royal Navy by Martin Robson Pdf

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts. The Royal Navy was a key player in the wider wars and, for Britain, the key factor in her eventual emergence as the only naval power capable of sustained global hegemony. The most iconic battles of any era were fought at sea during these years - from the Battle of the Nile in 1798 to Nelson's momentous victory at Trafalgar in October 1805. In this period, the Navy had reached a peak of efficiency and was unrivalled in manpower and technological strength. The eradication of scurvy in the 1790s had a significant impact on the health of sailors and, along with regular supplies of food and water, gave the British an advantage over their rivals in battle. As well as naval battles, the Navy also undertook amphibious operations, capturing many of France's Caribbean colonies and Dutch colonies in the East Indies and Ceylon; this Imperial dimension was integral to British strength and counteracting French success on continental Europe. This book looks at the history of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815, from a broad perspective, examining the strategy, operations and tactics of British seapower. While it delves into the details of Royal Navy operations such as battle, blockade, commerce protection and exploration, it also covers a myriad of other aspects often overlooked in narrative histories such as the importance of naval logistics, transport, relations with the army and manning. An assessment of key naval figures and combined eyewitness accounts situate the reader firmly in Nelson's navy. Through an exploration of the relationship between the Navy, trade and empire, Martin Robson highlights the contribution Royal Navy made to Britain's rise to global hegemony through the nineteenth century Pax Britannica.

Author : Geoffrey Till
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714655420

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Seapower by Geoffrey Till Pdf

At the beginning of the 21st century much has remained the same in naval terms but much has changed. Geoffrey Till's study is an exploration of how change will impact upon the world's navies.

Author : Martin Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857718846

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Britain, Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars by Martin Robson Pdf

In the maelstrom of Napoleonic Europe, Britain remained defiant, resisting French imperial ambitions. This Anglo-French rivalry was, essentially, a politico-economic conflict for pre-eminence fought on a global scale and it reached a zenith in 1806-1808 with France's apparent dominance of Continental Europe. Britain reacted swiftly and decisively to implement maritime-based strategies to limit French military and commercial gains in Europe, while protecting British overseas interests. The policy is particularly evident in relations with Britain's 'Ancient Ally': Portugal. That country and, by association her South American empire, became the front line in the battle between Napoleon's ambitions and British maritime security. Shedding new light on British war aims and maritime strategy, this is an essential work for scholars of the Napoleonic Wars and British political, diplomatic, economic and maritime/military history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Unified operations (Military science)
ISBN : UFL:31262093105046

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Joint Force Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Howard J. Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134200443

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Empire, Technology and Seapower by Howard J. Fuller Pdf

This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered serious challenges during the period. Many recent works have attempted to depict the mid-Victorian Royal Navy as all-powerful, innovative, and even self-assured. In contrast, this work argues that it suffered serious challenges in the form of expanding imperial commitments, national security concerns, precarious diplomatic relations with European Powers and the United States, and technological advancements associated with the armoured warship at the height of the so-called 'Pax Britannica'. Utilising a wealth of international archival sources, this volume explores the introduction of the monitor form of ironclad during the American Civil War, which deliberately forfeited long-range power-projection for local, coastal command of the sea. It looks at the ways in which the Royal Navy responded to this new technology and uses a wealth of international primary and secondary sources to ascertain how decision-making at Whitehall affected that at Westminster. The result is a better-balanced understanding of Palmerstonian diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, the early evolution of the modern capital ship (including the catastrophic loss of the experimental sail-and-turret ironclad H.M.S. Captain), naval power-projection, and the nature of 'empire', 'technology', and 'seapower'. This book will be of great interest to all students of the Royal Navy, and of maritime and strategic studies in general.

Author : Jeremy Black,Professor Jeremy Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300103867

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The British Seaborne Empire by Jeremy Black,Professor Jeremy Black Pdf

"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eugene Rasor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473812390

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The Seaforth Bibliography by Eugene Rasor Pdf

This remarkable work is a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the most important scholarly and printed materials about the naval and maritime history of England and Great Britain from the earliest times to 1815. More than 4,000 popular, standard and official histories, important articles in journals and periodicals, anthologies, conference, symposium and seminar papers, guides, documents and doctoral theses are covered so that the emphasis is the broadest possible. But the work is far, far more than a listing. The works are all evaluated, assessed and analysed and then integrated into an historical narrative that makes the book a hugely useful reference work for student, scholar, and enthusiast alike. It is divided into twenty-one chapters which cover resource centres, significant naval writers, pre-eminent and general histories, the chronological periods from Julius Caesar through the Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts to Nelson and Bligh, major naval personalities, warships, piracy, strategy and tactics, exploration, discovery and navigation, archaeology and even naval fiction. Quite simply, no-one with an interest and enthusiasm for naval history can afford to be without this book at their side.

Author : Eugene L. Rasor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313073113

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English/British Naval History to 1815 by Eugene L. Rasor Pdf

The English/British have always been known as the sailor race with hearts of oak: the Royal Navy as the Senior Service and First Line of Defense. It facilitated the motto: The sun never set on the British Empire. The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated bibliography supplies entries that explore the influence of the English/British Navy through its history. This survey will provide a major reference guide for students and scholars at all levels. It incorporates evaluative, qualitative, and critical analysis processes, the essence of historical scholarship. Each one of the 4,124 annotated entries is evaluated, assessed, analyzed, integrated, and incorporated into the historiographical scholarship.

Author : Robert K. Sutcliffe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839491

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British Expeditionary Warfare and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1793-1815 by Robert K. Sutcliffe Pdf

How did Britain manage the transportation of large numbers of troops to French controlled territory during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and successfully land them?

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3170 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104260346

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf