The British Navy and the Use of Naval Power in the Eighteenth CenturyJeremy Black, Philip Woodfine Artikelsamling om den britiske flåde i det 18. århundrede. Omhandler bl.a. flådens anvendelse i forskellige krige og til beskyttelse af den britiske handel, den politiske administration af flåden, og den britiske flådes diplomatiske bestræbelser ved det svenske hof under Napoleonskrigene. |
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Limitations of British sea power in the French Wars 16891815 | 33 |
The Navy as handmaid for commerce and high policy | 51 |
Europe at the end of the seventeenth century 523 | 52 |
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