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How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves
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W.H.G. Kingston
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W.H.G. Kingston
Introductory Remarks.
Ships of the Ancients.
Nautical Customs derived from the Ancients.
Early English Ships (from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1087.)
The Navy in the days of the Plantagenets - from A.D. 1087 to A.D. 1327.
Ships and Commerce to the reign of Henry the Seventh - from A.D. 1327 to A.D. 1509.
Establishment of the Royal Navy of England - from A.D. 1509 to A.D. 1558.
Reign of Elizabeth - from A.D. 1558 to A.D. 1603.
James the First - from A.D. 1567 to A.D. 1625.
Charles the First to Termination of Commonwealth - A.D. 1625 to A.D. 1660.
The Commonwealth.
Charles the Second and James the Second - from A.D. 1660 to A.D. 1689.
James the Second.
A View of Naval affairs in Charles the Second's Reign.
William and Mary - from A.D. 1689 to A.D. 1702.
Queen Anne - from A.D. 1702 to A.D. 1714.
George the First and Second - from A.D. 1714 to A.D. 1760.
George the Second.
George the Third - from A.D. 1760 to A.D. 1782.
George the Third - from War with Republican France, A.D. 1792, to end of A.D. 1802.
George the Third - from A.D. 1803 to end of war A.D. 1814.
War with United States of America to war in Syria - from A.D. 1811 to A.D. 1840.
First War with Burmah - 1826.
The Second Burmese War - 1851-52.
Battle of Navarino - 1827.
Warfare in Syria with Mahomet Ali.
First War with China, and efforts to suppress the Slave-Trade - A.D. 1840.
African Coast Blockade.
Dhow chasing on the East Coast of Africa.
Expedition up the Niger.
Warfare in the Nineteenth Century - from A.D. 1845 to A.D. 1900.
Captain Loch's expedition up the Saint Juan De Nicaragua.
Attacks on Pirates.
War with China - 1856.
Russian War - 1854-55.
Operations in the Baltic.
The Evolution of the Modern Warship.
Modern Engines of War.
The British Navy of to-day.
Introductory Remarks. ›
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