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Naval and Military Operations of Great Britain: Foundations of a New Naval Strategy

Naval and Military Operations of Great Britain: Foundations of a New Naval Strategy

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British HistoryNaval History

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ISBN10: 1784532983
ISBN13: 9781784532987
Publisher: I B Tauris
Published: Jun 23 2019
Language: English

Naval and Military Operations of Great Britain is the single most important contemporary account of the Royal Navy in the 18th century. Its six volumes present a new approach to naval strategy. Defeat in the American Revolutionary War called into question the assumptions of superiority upon which so much earlier commentary on naval affairs had been based. By addressing the specific causes of the disaster, the author, Robert Beatson (1742-1818), hoped to render both the navy and the nation wiser for the future. Lauded by key figures in the development of naval strategy, including John Laughton, Alfred T. Mahan, and Julian Corbett, this work remains fundamental to modern scholarship on the nature of British naval power and is an especially rich source of information on the British army's campaign in North America.

This edition contains a substantial new introduction by leading naval scholar, Andrew Lambert (King's College London).

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