Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas. William Wood

CHAPTER I THE VERY BEGINNING OF SEA-POWER (10,000 years and more B.C.) II THE FIRST FAR WEST (The last 5,000 years B.C.) III EAST AGAINST WEST (480 BC-146 B.C.) IV CELTIC BRITAIN UNDER ROME (55 B.C.-410 A.D.) V THE HARDY NORSEMAN (449–1066) VI THE IMPERIAL NORMAN (1066–1451) VII KING OF THE ENGLISH ERA (1545)

BOOK II

       THE SAILING AGE

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      WHEN SAILORS FOUGHT ON EVERY OCEAN AND THE ROYAL NAVY

       OF THE MOTHER COUNTRY WON THE BRITISH COMMAND

       OF THE SEA BOTH IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW

      DRAKE TO NELSON

       1585–1805

      PART I—THE SPANISH WAR

VIII	OLD SPAIN AND NEW (1492–1571)
IX	THE ENGLISH SEA-DOGS (1545–1580)
X	THE SPANISH ARMADA (1588)

      PART II—THE DUTCH WAR

XI	THE FIRST DUTCH WAR (1623–1653)
XII	THE SECOND AND THIRD DUTCH WARS (1665–1673)

      PART III—THE FRENCH WAR

XIII	THE FIRST WAR AGAINST LOUIS XIV (1689–1697)
XIV	THE SECOND WAR AGAINST LOUIS XIV (1702–1713)
XV	WAR AGAINST FRANCE AND SPAIN (1739–1748)
XVI	PITT'S IMPERIAL WAR (1756–1763)
XVII	THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1775–1783)
XVIII	NELSON (1798–1805)
XIX	"1812"

BOOK III

       THE AGE OF STEAM AND STEEL

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      WHEN THE BRITISH COMMAND OF THE SEA SAVED THE WORLD

       FROM GERMAN SLAVERY IN THE GREATEST OF ALL WARS

      1914–1918

      PART I—A CENTURY OF CHANGE (1814–1914)

XX	A CENTURY OF BRITISH-FRENCH-AMERICAN PEACE (1815–1914)
XXI	A CENTURY OF MINOR BRITISH WARS (1815–1914)

      PART II—THE GREAT WAR (1914–1918)

XXII	THE HANDY MAN
XXIII	FIFTY YEARS OF WARNING (1864–1914)
XXIV	WAR (1914–1915)
XXV	JUTLAND (1916)
XXVI	SUBMARINING (1917–1918)
XXVII	SURRENDER! (1918)
XXVIII	WELL DONE!

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      ERRATA

      Page XIII. For "Henry VII's" read "Henry VIII's."

      Page 254. L. 20 for "facing the Germans" read "away from Scheer,"

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