... and the fate of North America were determined by sea-power, so also at a very remote epoch sea-power decided whether or not Hellenic colonisation was ...
... by men from the 'old country.' Moreover, it was small. The wealth of India would have sufficed to furnish a larger material element but, as the ...
... ranks of our bluejackets till a date later than that of the launch of the first ironclad, could carry back their professional genealogy to at least the ...
... never so thoroughly a sea-going force as it was in the war of American Independence and never so closely approached our own in real sea-experience ...
... peace had been re-established for several years before the American people could be made to see the great part taken by the navy in the restoration ...
... points of a long coast-line, enter blockaded harbours. On the contrary, history has shown that such evasions are always possible, to some extent, to the ...
... it is, but, all the same, there does exist something which we call national characteristics. The aim of all training should be to utilise these to ...
... that in reality there had been none. 'During the [American] war the ship-yards in every port of Britain were full of employment and consequently ...
... the reporter makes no mention of any of the parties whose proceedings he described being engaged in picking up men who had voluntarily joined ships fitting ...
... compiled by Captain Desbrire, of the French Cuirassiers, who was specially authorised to continue his editorial labours even after he had resumed his ...
... to carry out a real invasion. The strength of such an army will largely depend upon the amount of mobile land force of which we can dispose. Consequently, ...
... army is not a sufficient defence for a continental country against invasion. What other efficient defence against that can a continental country ...
... taught us that rapping the table with it was an effectual plan for expelling them. There is no more justification for accusing Queen Elizabeth ...
... in the British Navy and is not in the least distinctly Elizabethan. [Footnote 80: This happened to me in 1904.]. Some acquaintance with present ...
... valueless earthy substances surround a vein of precious metal, so through Nelson's moral nature there ran an opulent lode of character, unimpaired in ...
... the eventuality. Let us for the moment suppose that, like one of the smaller countries whose case has been adduced, we are restricted to localised defence. ...
... to allot to it. To discuss it adequately, a volume of no diminutive size would be necessary. It may, however, be possible to indicate with the brevity ...
... were reduced to four, the number of frigates was increased from nine to twenty-five. Whether our Government divined Napoleon's designs on India or not, ...
... It is a supply, and not a repairing base. A comparison of the 'direct' system and 'secondary base' system may be interesting. A navy being maintained ...
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