Excerpt from The Royal Navy, Vol. 2 of 5: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present The present volume appears at a date three months later than that at which it was originally hoped to produce it. It appears also with a slight change in the names which were originally intended to figure on its title-page. For the delay I am, I fear, myself mainly responsible. Continuous ill-health, which has rendered it impossible for me to live, except for brief periods at a time, anywhere save in high altitudes, has made it particularly hard for me to work with steady regularity upon the book, and has of course, complicated in an extreme degree the difficulty of preparing a history which is largely based upon the study of original documents. The delay is, however, in some measure due also to the same cause which has necessitated the substitution on the title-page of the name of Mr. L. Carr Laughton for that of Mr. E. Fraser. Mr. Edward Fraser, in the early part of 1896 undertook to contribute to this volume the chapters dealing with the operations of the Navy in the period 1608 - 1660. Not until long after the expiration of the limit at first assigned to him for the completion of those chapters did I reluctantly realise that I could afford to grant him no further con cession of time. He assures me that he regrets that he has been unable to keep faith with me, and through me, with the publishers and with my readers; and I need scarcely add that I regret it also. Yet I believe that in a son of Professor Laughton, the veteran writer on naval history, I have found no inefficient substitute. Mr. Laughton describes the active work of the Navy under James I Charles I., and the Commonwealth. For the remainder of this volume Sir Clements Markham and myself are responsible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Royal Navy, Vol. 2 of 5: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Classic Reprint)

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William Laird Clowes

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Excerpt from The Royal Navy, Vol. 5 of 6: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present The present volume contains the record of the whole of the great naval struggle with the empire of the first Napoleon, from the beginning of the renewed war in 1803, when, indeed, Napoleon had not yet assumed the imperial dignity, up to the summer of 1815, when the peace of Europe was secured by the deportation of the wonderful Corsican to St. Helena. I had hoped also to include in the volume the history of the war between Great Britain and the United States of America, 1812-1815; but, owing to the considerable length to which it necessarily extends, I have found myself unable to do so without swelling this section of the book to extravagant proportions. Governor Roosevelt's account of the American War, therefore, will occupy the first place in the next and final volume of the work. Nor do I much regret that I am not now able to include it, seeing that the contents of the present volume are already, so far as they go, complete in themselves, and that, although the two were waged simultaneously, our wars with France and with America in the early years of the nineteenth century had little or no connection one with the other, and were of fundamentally different origin and character. I am personally responsible for the whole of the instalment of the History now given to the reader. It was originally arranged that my friend, Mr. H. W. Wilson, should contribute the record of the minor operations of the war of 1803 - 15; and he actually wrote so much of it as brought the story up to nearly the close of the year 1810 but he was unable to revise what he had written, or to complete the account and that task, in consequence, remained for me. I much regret that pressure of other engagements should have thus deprived me of his co-operation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Royal Navy, Vol. 5 of 6: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Classic Reprint)

One hundred years after its first printing, Sir William Clowes's superb seven volume study still retains its position as the preeminent history of the Royal Navy.
 Volume 1 covers the period from the early Britons to the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Royal Navy, Vol 1: A History From the Earliest Times to 1900 (Volume 1)

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Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson. Covers the 18th century from the accession of George I in 1715 to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1793.

The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol. 3

Sir Clements Robert Markham

Chatham Pub.

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The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol. 4

Volume: 1 Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston Publication date: 1897 Subjects: Great Britain -- History, Naval Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present (7 Volumes)

Chatham Publishing

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