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Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition: Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772-1853

Book by Roger Morriss; University of Exeter Press, 1997

Subjects:

Admirals--Great Britain--Biography, Cockburn, George--Sir--1772-1853, Great Britain--History, Naval--19th Century, Great Britain--Royal Navy--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

COCKBURN AND THE BRITISH NAVY IN TRANSITION ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE...Stephen Fisher (1997) COCKBURN AND THE BRITISH NAVY IN TRANSITION ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE...been termed pax britannica. The British navy itself, reflecting change elsewhere...
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The Royal Navy in America, 1760-1775: A Study of Enforcement of British Colonial Policy in the Era of the American Revolution

Book by Neil R. Stout; Naval Institute Press, 1973

Subjects:

Great Britain--History, Naval--18th Century, Great Britain--Royal Navy, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes

Collections: History, Entire Library

...many-sided story of the Royal Navy and the British Empire. It is a study of the...dominated world commerce just as the British Royal Navy dominated the worlds sea lanes...to the efforts of the Royal Navy. The British annexation of the important...
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The Royal Navy in the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War: Culture and Strategy

Book by Alastair Finlan; Frank Cass, 2004

Subjects:

Falkland Islands War, 1982--Naval Operations, British, Great Britain--Royal Navy--History--20th Century, Great Britain--Royal Navy--History--Falkland Islands War, 1982, Great Britain--Royal Navy--History--Persian Gulf War, 1991, Persian Gulf War, 1991--Naval Operations, British

Collections: History, Entire Library

Alastair Finlan is a Lecturer in Strategic Studies in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. He has also lectured at the American University in Cairo, Britannia Royal Navy College, Keele University and Plymouth University.
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Great Britain and the German Navy

Book by E. L. Woodward; The Clarendon Press, 1935

Subjects:

Europe--Politics And Government--20th Century, Germany--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, Germany--Kriegsmarine, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--Germany, Great Britain--Royal Navy, World War, 1914-1918--Causes

Collections: History, Entire Library

...building of Dread- noughts, the British navy was overwhelmingly superior to...Grey might well say that the British navy was the first and only defence...destroying the German navy that the British navy would then be at the mercy of other...
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History of the Modern American Navy: From 1883 through Pearl Harbor

Book by Donald W. Mitchell; Alfred A. Knopf, 1946

Subjects:

United States--History, Naval, United States--Navy--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Confederacy. For the Union Navy, weak at the beginning...Though behind the British and French in ship...for some years the British dock at Halifax...condition of the navy in 1883 with reference...and Eber ; the British vessel was the cruiser...Secretary of the Navy: "The United States...

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Resisting Toxic Militarism: Vieques versus the U.S. Navy

Journal article by Deborah Berman Santana; Social Justice, 2002

Subjects:

Armed Forces--International aspects, Armed Forces--Social aspects, Big business--Environmental aspects, Big business--International aspects, Big business--Political aspects, Big business--Social aspects, Capitalism--Influence, Capitalism--International aspects, Energy consumption, Environmentalists, Ethnic groups, International relations--Military aspects, International relations--Political aspects, International relations--Social aspects, Pollution, Toxins--Management, United States. Department of Defense, United States. Navy, United States--Foreign relations, United States--Military policy, United States--Political aspects, United States--Social policy, Vieques Island

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...law, passed in August, allowed the Navy to take immediate possession of targeted...build a giant base to shelter the British fleet plunged Vieques into World...by 1943 it became clear that the British Navy would not need the shelter and work...
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Jane Austen and the Navy

Journal article by Deidre Lynch; CLIO, Vol. 32, 2003

Subjects:

Jane Austen and the Navy (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...Captain Benwick as a type familiar to British readers includes some delightful...and amusingly enough, the ideal navy man possessed some of the "accomplishments...Golden Age of Sail. This is not the British Navy that Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker...
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The U.S. Navy and the Late Nineteenth-Century Steel Industry

Journal article by Kurt Hackemer; The Historian, Vol. 57, 1995

Subjects:

Steel industry--Military policy, United States. Navy--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Bolivia, a war in which her British-built warships played a key...looked at the state of the navy and found an obsolete and antiquated...1968). For a closer look at the British experience see Robin Higham...Kenneth J. Hagan, This Peoples Navy: The Making of American Sea...
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They Sailed the Skies: U.S. Navy Balloons and the Airship Program

Journal article by Jeffrey P. Joyce; Air Power History, Vol. 53, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, They Sailed the Skies: U.S. Navy Balloons and the Airship Program (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...framework) pressure-type airship. The nickname (attributed to the British) supposedly described the sound made by flicking ones thumb...airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenberg. Following World War I the Navy participated in the popular James Gordon Bennett International...
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Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945

Journal article by John Beeler; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...4). There can be no doubt that the twentieth-century Royal Navy is a rewarding target for those seeking that elusive personal...generated a wealth of letters, diaries, and memoirs. Moreover, British class-consciousness--to this day far better developed and articulated...

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His Majesty's Blue Domain

Magazine article by Michael Knox Beran; National Review, Vol. 56, November 29, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, by Arthur...the spread of liberal order: the British navy. The book begins with a series...sailing culture out of which the British navy emerged. All three men came from...
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Rule Britannia, Britannia Rule the Waves ... Navy League Map of the British Empire (1925)

Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 77, January 2005

Subjects:

Maps (Geography)--Evaluation, Maps--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...Britannia Rule the Waves ... Navy League Map of the British Empire (1925). This impressive...showing the evolution of the British Navy from an 11th-century 80-foot...series--"Modern types of the British navy"--that shows a battle cruiser...
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The British Seaborne Empire

Magazine article by John Mackenzie; History Today, Vol. 55, May 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The British Seaborne Empire (Book)--Book reviews, The Habit of Victory: The Story of the Royal Navy, 1545 to 1945 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Story of the Royal Navy 1545-1945 Captain...0-283-07312-8 THE BRITISH, AS BILL BRYSON ONCE...are packed full of British seafarers experiencing...where their Royal Navy, merchant marine...direction of the fighting navy. We learn very little...O, Union-Castle, British India, Royal Mail...
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Strange Victory: The Original Gamble Was Born of Weakness. but Thanks to British Errors, Iran Has Got More Than It Was Hoping For

Magazine article by Rageh Omaar; New Statesman, Vol. 136, April 16, 2007

Subjects:

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud--Foreign policy, Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud--Military policy, British foreign relations--Analysis, Detention of persons--Military aspects, Detention--Military aspects, Iranian foreign relations--Analysis, Sailors--Military aspects, United Kingdom. Royal Navy--Military aspects

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...out and grabbed some, in the form of the British sailors. Two weeks later, as the naval...force is quite another. Although the Royal Navy says the unannounced searches in the Gulf...motions, and who can blame them? Is the navy really going to risk a rerun of the crisis...
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Pie in the Sky? as Battle of Britain Day Approaches Brian James Has Been Finding out Why Some of Today's Leading Military Historians Argue That It Was Not the RAF but the Royal Navy That Saved Britain in 1940

Magazine article by Brian James; History Today, Vol. 56, September 2006

Subjects:

Historians--Research, Military history--Research, United Kingdom. Royal Air Force--Services, United Kingdom. Royal Navy--Services, World War II, 1939-1945

Collections: History, Entire Library

...general Jodl put it, so long as the British navy existed, an invasion would be...now had an excuse, like the navy, to blame the Luftwaffe. It had...in. Part was hype to keep the British public behind hint. And hype...

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How the British Navy Became the World's Best

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 2, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

How the British Navy Became the Worlds Best...but much of the legendary British hubris derived from the might of their navy. The story of that navy...RULE THE WAVES: HOW THE BRITISH NAVY SHAPED THE MODERN WORLD...
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Mayday.Mayday.The Dodgy Submarine We Bought from the British Navy Has Caught Fire before We Could Even Get It Home to Canada

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 6, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Dodgy Submarine We Bought from the British Navy Has Caught Fire before We Could Even...second-hand submarine from the Royal Navy. The journey back across the Atlantic...distress call. Within minutes the Royal Navy, which had just waved the sub off...
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Caught in a War of Words; New Crisis Looms in the Gulf as Britain Warns Iran over Treatment of British Navy Men Blindfolded and Paraded on Tv

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 23, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Iran over Treatment of British Navy Men Blindfolded and Paraded...Marines and two Royal Navy sailors were seized by...freed immediately if the British government made a formal...demonstrated in front of the British Embassy in Tehran last...
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Iran Arrests Eight British Sailors as Navy Vessels Held

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 21, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Iran Arrests Eight British Sailors as Navy Vessels Held. Byline...impounded. "The Iranian navy has confiscated three British boats that entered Iranian...incident was surprising because British navy minesweepers and Iranian...
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Hoon Defies Spanish Fury at Gibraltar Celebrations; ROYAL NAVY IN CEREMONIAL MARCH TO CELEBRATE 300 YEARS OF BRITISH RULE

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 4, 2004

Subjects:

Hoon, Geoff

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Celebrations; ROYAL NAVY IN CEREMONIAL MARCH...CELEBRATE 300 YEARS OF BRITISH RULE. Byline...attending a Royal Navy march past to mark...300th anniversary of British rule in the colony...infuriated when the Royal Navy frigate HMS Grafton...Saturday - the first British ship to do so since...

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Navy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...From then on the British navy was the strongest...seas for 300 years. British naval power rested...establish a strong navy. In 1898, the United...Warships of the British and Commonwealth...the United States Navy (rev. ed. 1967...
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Pitt, William , 1759–1806, British Statesman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...halt radical agitation. His military coalitions against France (1793 and 1798) were unsuccessful on land, although the British navy won some overwhelming victories, and his financial support of Britains allies brought on a monetary crisis. Rebellion...
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Penn, Sir William , British Admiral

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

PENN, SIR WILLIAM , British admiral 1621 70, British admiral. In the English civil war he served in Parliaments...knighted Penn (1660) and made him a commissioner of the navy. In the second Dutch War Penn was second in command to the...
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Biddle, Nicholas , American Naval Officer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Philadelphia. Biddle left the British navy in 1773. In the American Revolution...became captain in the patriot navy and daringly raided British shipping off the American coast...an encounter (1778) with the British warship Yarmouth off the...
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Clapperton, Hugh

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

CLAPPERTON, HUGH 1788 1827, British explorer, b. Annan, Scotland. After serving with the British navy in East India and Canada he made two journeys to W Africa. On the initial journey (1822 25) he was one of the first Europeans to...

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