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William Wood
Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
Published by Good Press, 2019
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EAN 4057664568540
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
BOOK I THE ROWING AGE
BOOK II THE SAILING AGE
BOOK III THE AGE OF STEAM AND STEEL
ILLUSTRATIONS
VIKING MAN-OF-WAR. . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
FLAG AND FLEET
BOOK I THE ROWING AGE
CHAPTER I THE VERY BEGINNING OP SEA-POWER (10,000 years and more B.C.)
[Illustration: "DUG-OUT" CANOE]
CHAPTER II
THE FIRST FAR WEST (The last 5000 years B.C.)
CHAPTER III
EAST AGAINST WEST (480-146 B.C.)
[Illustration: ROMAN TRIREME—A vessel with three benches of oars]
CHAPTER IV
CELTIC BRITAIN UNDER ROME (55 B.C.-410 A.D.)
CHAPTER V
THE HARDY NORSEMAN (449-1066)
THE SEA-FARER
CHAPTER VI
THE IMPERIAL NORMAN (1066-1451)
[Illustration: WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S TRANSPORTS]
CHAPTER VII
KING OF THE ENGLISH SEA (1545)
[Illustrations: Eddystone Lighthouse, 1699. The first structure of stone and timber. Built for Trinity House by Winstanley and swept away in a storm. Eddystone Lighthouse, 1882. The fourth and present structure, erected by Sir J. N. Douglass for Trinity House.]
TO SEA
A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE
EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH
BERMUDAS
BOOK II THE SAILING AGE
PART I THE SPANISH WAR (1568-1596)
CHAPTER VIII OLD SPAIN AND NEW (1492-1571)
[Illustration: The Santa Maria , flagship of Christopher Columbus when he discovered America in 1492. Length of keel, 60 feet. Length of ship proper, 93 feet. Length over all, 128 feet. Breadth, 26 feet. Tonnage, full displacement, 233.]
THE FAME OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
CHAPTER IX
THE ENGLISH SEA-DOGS (1545-1580)
[Illustration: DRAKE]
CHAPTER X
THE SPANISH ARMADA (1588)
[Illustration: One of Drake's Men-of-War that Fought the Great Armada in 1588.]
[Illustration: ARMADA OFF FOWEY (Cornwall) as first seen in the English Channel.]
[Illustration: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ON BOARD THE REVENGE receiving the surrender of Don Pedro de Valdes.]
THE REVENGE
A Ballad of the Fleet
PART II
THE DUTCH WAR
CHAPTER XI THE FIRST DUTCH WAR (1623-1653)
