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-- Fighting ships :2002, c1996., Constable & Robinson Call No: 940.2 D255f Edition: 1st Stackpole Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From 1793 to 1815 were the years of the Napoleonic wars. This is the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the ship of the line, the beautiful but deadly battleships that waged the war at sea. There are accounts of the ships, their construction and armaments, the daily life of the men, and details of the battles that include the Glorious First of June, Camperdown, the Battle of the Nile, and Trafalgar.
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c2004., HarperCollins Call No: 359.00942 H551t Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Recounts how Britain's Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From its beginnings under Henry VIII and adventurers like John Hawkins and Francis Drake, the Royal Navy toppled one world economic system, built by Spain and Portugal after Columbus, and ushered in another--the one in which we still live today. Follows its historiy from the defeat of the Spanish Armada, through the seventeenth century, when the navy came to play a leading role as England became a world power, through the convulsions of Napoleon, the twentieth century, and the downfall of the British Empire itself, as Britain passed its essential elements on to its successor, the United States.
