The First Fleets
Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
Published:31st May '25
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The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution.
ISBN: 9780817322342
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232 pages