Britain's Naval Route to Greatness 1688
1815
Jeremy Black
Category: Military & War Non-fiction
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 5/15/23
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
ISBN 13: 9780198810506
Total Pages: 288 pages, 8 Plates, color; 8 Plates, color
Weight: 610
Dimensions: 165 x 244 x 33
The key importance of naval success in Britain's rise to being the leading power in the world was a hard-won process, one that linked fighting effectiveness to national support. Covering both these elements, Jeremy Black takes us from the successful Dutch invasion of 1688 to the long sequence of British successes in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Here we have battles and dockyards, the details of naval combat and the finer points of political support for building and sustaining the largest navy in the world. Thanks to the navy, Britain survived as an independent state and moulded the world.