A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine

A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine
Author: William Falconer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 863
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1108040039

This 1813 dictionary covers every aspect of seafaring, from shipbuilding to navigation, and from supplies to signals.

Shipping and the American War 1775-83

Shipping and the American War 1775-83
Author: David Syrett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474241344

Showing the complex interaction of strategy, logistics, administration, and economics, Syrett's pioneering text brings to light some basic causes for the ultimate failure of the British war effort during the American War of Independence. This war effort was fatally compromised by the British need to support a great army and a large naval force in the western hemisphere while at the same time facing a coalition of maritime powers on the European continent.