Naval and Military Operations of Great Britain: Foundations of a New Naval Strategy

by Andrew D. Lambert and Robert Beatson

Naval and Military Operations of Great Britain is the single most important contemporary account of the Royal Navy in the 18th century. Its six volumes present a new approach to naval strategy. Defeat in the American Revolutionary War called into question the assumptions of superiority upon which so much earlier commentary on naval affairs had been based. By addressing the specific causes of the disaster, the author, Robert Beatson (1742-1818),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784532983
• ISBN13: 9781784532987
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 3408 Pages