An Encyclopedia of Naval History

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The articles in this thorough and comprehensive encyclopedia of the maritime history of the American Civil War offer reflections on the overall strategy of both sides in the conflict, the role of diplomacy, the most important naval officers and other personalities, naval battles and individual engagements, famous ships and significant ship types, naval artillery and weapon systems, or novel technical developments such as mines or submersibles. Yet Dreadnought was rapidly overtaken by more powerful and faster sisters, and she herself played little part in the First World War. Dedicated to the history of all ships of the industrial era and 20th century, so 1820 to 1990, but also earlier times. The complete PDF was then passed through an "AI" text summarization tool which produced concise summaries of each page.Portsmouth, a nascent naval base by the reign of John (1199–1216), or Southampton were their usual destinations. The Navy did not do much during World War I (1914–18), but it played a major role in the combat of World War II (1939–45), especially in the Pacific campaign.

On this s es qui centenni al of the Civil War, The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia provides a summary of Civil War naval subject matter that appears to be the first encyclopedia to be published on this specific topic. Both navies were gradually reduced as a result of the long period of peace in the eastern Mediterranean after 1718, and the Ottoman navy was unprepared for the new challenge from Russia in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea from 1768 on. These are examples of the fascinating details contained in The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia that provide readers with a complete understanding of the naval aspects of the American Civil War. often the navy or the Navy) the branch of a nation's armed services that conducts military operations at sea.

Improved foundry technology made it possible to produce cheap iron guns that reduced the cost of permanent naval armament. The names of Hawkins, Pepys, and Barham are inseparable from its record, strained though the board's relations with the policy-making Board of Admiralty often were. Up to about 1500 the Ottoman and Venetian navies increased in size during the struggle for control of Greece. as of ‘naturally generous dispositions though turbulent, fearless, or, rather, thoughtless of consequences’, made a singular contribution to Britain's awesome repute at sea in the century of Vernon, Hawke, Rodney, and Nelson. The first of these challenges came from a new combination of naval powers, France and Spain, which began to act as allies in the eighteenth-century struggle over colonies and trade in America and Asia.