On Naval Warfare with SteamJ. Murray, 1858 - 155 Seiten |
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... navy is in a great measure indebted for the success which has hitherto attended it in the hostile collisions of its ships with those of other nations ; a " Des machines puissantes du genre d'un moteur obéissant rendra inutiles et la ...
... navy is in a great measure indebted for the success which has hitherto attended it in the hostile collisions of its ships with those of other nations ; a " Des machines puissantes du genre d'un moteur obéissant rendra inutiles et la ...
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... navy has so long and so happily for us main- tained , will cease to exist , and that other nations , less rich in nautical resources , but more abundant in those , both personal and material , which are required for military service on ...
... navy has so long and so happily for us main- tained , will cease to exist , and that other nations , less rich in nautical resources , but more abundant in those , both personal and material , which are required for military service on ...
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... navy . New discoveries in the means and implements of war have at all times been necessarily attended , both in fleets and armies , by new formations in the array of battle , and by modifications , or entire changes , in their tactical ...
... navy . New discoveries in the means and implements of war have at all times been necessarily attended , both in fleets and armies , by new formations in the array of battle , and by modifications , or entire changes , in their tactical ...
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... navy of Great Britain to act on equal terms with that of any conti- nental nation , it ought by far to exceed the navy of such nation in the number of ships of war of like force . Taking France , for example : while the naval power xvi ...
... navy of Great Britain to act on equal terms with that of any conti- nental nation , it ought by far to exceed the navy of such nation in the number of ships of war of like force . Taking France , for example : while the naval power xvi ...
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... navy was , in former times , so promptly accomplished by compulsory service , that , often , the dangers which menaced the country by sea were averted by a consciousness , on the part of the enemy , that our fleets were fully prepared ...
... navy was , in former times , so promptly accomplished by compulsory service , that , often , the dangers which menaced the country by sea were averted by a consciousness , on the part of the enemy , that our fleets were fully prepared ...
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