War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650-1850 (History of Warfare) - Softcover

Lambert, Andrew

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9780304363513: War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650-1850 (History of Warfare)

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ISBN 10: 0304363510 ISBN 13: 9780304363513

Publisher: Cassell, 1899

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One of the world's leading maritime experts traces the path that led to European supremacy on the high seas, with detailed accounts of each of the key naval conflicts from the highest strategic level right down to the experience of the ordinary sailor. At the end of the 17th and throughout the 18th century, oceangoing forces developed into instruments of worldwide control. At first, Spain, France, Holland, and Britain headed the pack, but eventually the struggle for domination at sea culminated in Britain's triumph during the Napoleonic Wars and the elevation of the Royal Navy to global domination.

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Dr Andrew Lambert is Professor of Naval History at King's College, London, and Vice-President of the British Commission for Maritime History. His publications include WARRIOR: THE FIRST IRONCLAD, and THE CRIMEAN WAR: BRITISH GRAND STRATEGY AGAINST RUSSIA, 1853-60.

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Every library requires a basic source on sailing ship warfare, a need solidly met by Lambert's profusely illustrated survey of the two centuries of naval dominance, ending about 1850, by the triple-masted, multidecked, heavily gunned ship of the line. Lambert, a naval historian in Britain, efficiently economizes his text, wasting few words to narrate the geopolitical framework for the expensive construction and maintenance of fleets, of strategies for their operation, and, ultimately, of their tactics in battle. Making the important point that few battles between the days of de Ruyter and those of Nelson were decisive, Lambert impresses upon the reader the appreciation strategists reached that naval warfare was characterized by attrition, rarely by the cataclysmic victory a la Trafalgar. And so most naval operations were those of convoy, pursuit, blockade--things rather less exciting than the climax of broadsides in battle, the moment depicted in most of the dozens of paintings reproduced in Lambert's book. Twenty maps and perspective schematics of key battles support this able introduction to the warfare of wooden ships. Gilbert Taylor
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