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  • British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603–1714

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    de Rif Winfield ...
    The 1st volume in this comprehensive reference series details the design and employment of British warships in the 17th and early 18th centuries.During the seventeenth century, Britain transformed from a minor state into a global economic power with the largest navy in the world. The character of this navy was forged by a bloody civil war, three fiercely disputed conflicts with the Dutch, and the ... Leer más

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  • British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714–1792

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    de Rif Winfield ...
    The 2nd volume in this comprehensive naval history details the design and employment of British warships through the 18th century.The Hanoverian dynasty that came to power with the accession of George I in 1714 inherited the largest navy in the world. In the course of the century, this force would see a vast amount of action against nearly every major navy, reaching a pinnacle of success in the ... Leer más

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  • First Rate

    The Greatest Warships in the Age of Sail

    de Rif Winfield ...
    An illustrated history of the Royal Navy's most impressive vessels constructed during the Age of Sail.In the sailing era First Rates were the largest, most powerful and most costly ships to construct, maintain and operate. Built to the highest standards, they were lavishly decorated and given carefully considered names that reflected the pride and prestige of their country. They were the very ... Leer más

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  • French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1786–1861

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    This comprehensive reference presents in-depth information on French Naval ships of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.By 1786, after besting the Royal Navy in its many conflicts across the Atlantic, the French Navy had earned a sterling reputation for its ship design and fighting skills. Yet within a few years, the French Revolution had devastated its efficiency, leading to one defeat after ... Leer más

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  • French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1626–1786

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    "The first comprehensive listing of these ships in English. . . . Profusely illustrated [and] impressively informative." — Midwest Book ReviewThe origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661. Thereafter, Louis XIV ... Leer más

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  • British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793–1817

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    de Rif Winfield ...
    The revised edition of this authoritative naval history provides a comprehensive, illustrated guide to the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic Era.A major contribution to naval history, this third volume in Rif Winfield's British Warships in the Age of Sail covers every vessel that served in the Royal Navy between the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Battle of Waterloo. Revised to ... Leer más

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  • British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1817–1863

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    de Rif Winfield ...
    The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories of every significant British warship between 1603 and 1863. Following three earlier volumes, this one carries forward the story from the post-Napoleonic War reorganisation of the Royal Navy's rating system to the end of sail as the principal mode of propulsion. Although ... Leer más

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  • Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail, 1700–1860

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    "A beautiful work . . . certain to become the standard work in English on the Spanish sailing navy." —Seaways' Ships in ScaleThis book is the latest contribution to a unique series in a common format documenting in great detail the warships of the major naval powers during the age of sail. To date, four volumes have covered the British Navy, two have been devoted to the French Navy and one each to ... Leer más

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  • First Rate

    The Greatest Warship of the Age of Sail

    de Rif Winfield ...
    In the sailing era, the warships called First Rates were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct, maintain, and operate. Built to the highest standards, they were lavishly decorated and given carefully considered names that reflected the pride and prestige of their country. They were the very embodiment of national power, and as such drew the attention of artists, engravers, ... Leer más

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  • Trafalgar

    The men, the battle, the storm

    Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days and nights, the battleships and their exhausted crews endured a gale of awesome fury. As ... Leer más

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  • The Glorious First of June

    Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror

    de Sam Willis ...
    Series series Hearts of Oak Trilogy
    France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents, two vast French and British fleets meet in mid-Atlantic after a week of skirmishing.The French, in ships painted blood-red and bearing banners proclaiming 'la République ou la mort!' are escorting an American ... Leer más

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  • British Frigate vs French Frigate

    1793–1814

    de Mark Lardas ...
    Series Libro 52 - Duel
    Alongside full-colour artwork, this book reveals why glamorous but bloody single-ship duels between Britain and France have been immortalized in film and literature, from Horatio Hornblower to Jack Aubrey.In the Age of Fighting Sail (1650–1820), ambitious officers of the navies of many nations sought command of a frigate. Speedy, nimble and formidably armed, frigates often operated independently, ... Leer más

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