item: #1 of 8
          id: 10694
      author: Bridge, Cyprian, Sir
       title: Sea-Power and Other Studies
        date: None
       words: 80292
      flesch: 62
     summary: Calculations founded on the experience of manoeuvres show that in war time ships would require nearly three times the quantity used in peace. The experience of naval war, down to the close of that in which Trafalgar was the most impressive event, led to the virtual abandonment of ships of the line[92] above and below a certain class.
    keywords: admiral; army; battle; british; case; century; coal; command; communications; country; course; day; defence; empire; enemy; england; english; expedition; experience; fleet; footnote; force; french; general; history; invasion; land; line; lord; mahan; maritime; men; merchant; military; money; naval; navy; nelson; number; officers; peace; position; power; question; sea; seamen; service; ships; stores; supply; time; tons; trafalgar; vessels; war; way; years; | |
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 13529
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
        date: None
       words: 214505
      flesch: 59
     summary: Luckily for the allies the wind fell calm; and while Tourville himself and other French ships got out their boats to tow into action again, the allies were shrewd enough to drop anchor with all sail set, and before Tourville took in the situation the ebb-tide, setting southwest, had carried his fleet out of action. The positions of the different vessels were such that the Sultan could not have secured her prize; other French ships were approaching and must have retaken it.
    keywords: action; admiral; alliance; allies; america; army; attack; battle; british; chief; coast; colonies; commerce; conditions; control; country; day; days; dutch; east; end; enemy; england; english; english admiral; english fleet; english navy; english ships; europe; fire; fleet; force; france; french; general; good; government; grasse; great; having; history; holland; india; indies; islands; king; line; louis; maritime; military; nation; naval; navy; new; north; officers; order; peace; people; policy; port; position; rear; results; rodney; sea; sea power; sea war; ships; spain; spanish; squadron; states; suffren; time; trade; troops; united; van; war; way; west; wind; years
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 15749
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
        date: None
       words: 57429
      flesch: 46
     summary: But, with the strait, time has introduced a factor of which he could not dream,--a great nation midway between the West he knew and the East he sought, spanning the continent he unwittingly found, itself both East and West in one. There have been great wars, certainly; but, nevertheless, external peace has been the general characteristic of that period of development, during which men have been occupied in revolutionizing the face of their own countries by means of the new powers at their disposal.
    keywords: action; american; britain; british; caribbean; century; civilization; coast; commercial; conditions; control; country; european; force; future; general; importance; influence; interests; islands; isthmus; men; military; nations; naval; navy; pacific; people; point; policy; position; power; present; question; sea; states; strength; time; united; united states; war; world
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 17547
      author: Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen)
       title: The Navy as a Fighting Machine
        date: None
       words: 105058
      flesch: 51
     summary: But surely the foolishness of such an idea would promptly disappear from the brain of any one if he would remind himself that simply because a man joins the army or navy he does not cease to be a human being, with the same emotions of fear as other men, the same sensitiveness to pain, the same dread of death, and the same horror of leaving his family unsupported after his death. It seems clear that such a thing would be a national disaster, for any loss of money to one man always means a loss of money or its equivalent to other men besides.
    keywords: army; attack; base; battle; case; coast; country; course; defense; end; enemy; enemy fleet; fact; fleet; force; general; long; machine; man; material; means; men; military; nations; naval; navy; offensive; officers; operations; parts; people; personnel; plans; power; reason; sea; ships; skill; strategy; time; training; war; work; years; | b; | period; | |; | |damage; | |value
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 19849
      author: Wood, William
       title: Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
        date: None
       words: 83623
      flesch: 79
     summary: By this time (1840) steam had begun to be used in British men-of-war. But his shutting of the ports added a kind of slow starvation in the needs and arts of life to all his other sins; while the opening of the ports to British fleets and armies, and to the British trade that followed, meant the bread of life and liberty.
    keywords: army; battle; british; british sea; coast; country; cruisers; day; drake; dutch; east; empire; end; enemy; england; english; english sea; fight; fighting; fire; fleet; france; french; german; good; great; guns; home; jellicoe; king; land; left; line; men; miles; navy; nelson; new; north; north sea; people; power; round; royal; sea; sea fleet; ships; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; submarines; time; trade; vessels; victory; war; water; way; west; wind; work; world; years
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 25911
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 140835
      flesch: 55
     summary: Of the entire import of that year only 28 per cent, in money value, came from Europe; the carriage of the remaining 72 per cent was confined to British ships. When those countries were part of our plantations, a great portion of our produce was transported to Great Britain and our West India Islands in American bottoms; they had a share in the freight of sugars from those islands to Great Britain; they built annually more than one hundred ships, which were employed in the carrying trade of Great Britain; but since the Independence of those states, since their ships have been excluded from our plantations, and that trade is wholly confined to British ships, we have gained that share of our carrying trade from which they are now excluded.
    keywords: act; action; american; american state; american vessels; britain; british; british commerce; canada; carrying; case; colonial; colonies; commerce; conditions; congress; council; country; course; day; effect; embargo; enemy; england; english; europe; force; foreign; france; french; general; government; great; hull; ibid; iii; impressment; indies; intercourse; jefferson; law; letter; madison; measures; military; minister; monroe; napoleon; national; naval; navigation; navy; new; orders; papers; policy; ports; power; relations; right; seamen; secretary; shipping; ships; states government; system; time; trade; united states; vessels; vol; war; west; years
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 25912
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 156932
      flesch: 60
     summary: _Prizes_ taken by Americans in first three months of war, and in what localities taken, i. 394-395; taken by British in same period, 399-400; at later period of war, 406; transition period of prize-taking, January-June, 1813, ii. 20; estimate of relative losses by the two belligerents, 21-22; compilation of lists, by Niles' Register, 22; overlooked significance of the greater British losses, 23, 221; limited success of American frigates in taking, to what attributable, 216; taken by American cruisers, in latter part of war, 220-221; in West Indies, 230; total number taken throughout the war, by American naval vessels, and by privateers, 241-243. _Proclamation._ Commerce between Great Britain and America, regulated by, 1783-1794, i. 67-70; issued by Jefferson excluding British armed vessels from American waters, after Chesapeake affair, 160-161; Royal, directing commanders of British naval vessels to impress British-born seamen found in foreign merchant ships, and denying efficacy of naturalization papers to discharge from allegiance, 166; by Jefferson, against combinations to defy Embargo laws, 207; by Madison, permitting renewal of trade with Great Britain, 219, and withdrawn, 219; by Madison, announcing revocation of Napoleon's Decrees, 238. _ The brunt of the British naval operations falls upon the Chesapeake and Delaware 26 CHAPTER X CAMPAIGN OF 1813 ON THE LAKE FRONTIER, TO THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE The British naval service on the lakes under Warren's supervision 28 Sir James Yeo appointed to the local command 29 Appoints Captain Barclay to take charge of British vessels on Lake Erie 29 The Americans now superior on Ontario 29 Montreal the true American objective 29 Dearborn ordered to concentrate effort upon Lake Ontario 30 Chauncey's first plan, to capture Kingston 30 Dearborn and Chauncey ordered to proceed first against Kingston, then Toronto, then Niagara 31 Dearborn's objections 32 His reports obtain change of plan from the Government 33 Chauncey's new plan 33 The expedition leaves Sackett's Harbor 36 Capture of Toronto 36 Chauncey's anxiety for Sackett's Harbor 37 Capture of Fort George, and British retreat from Niagara 38 Effects of the American occupation of the Niagara peninsula 40 American naval vessels escape from Black Rock to Erie 41 British attack upon Sackett's Harbor 42 Premature firing of the naval yard and vessels 45 Consequent delay in Chauncey's preparations 45 Yeo takes the lake with his squadron 46 American reverse at Stony Creek 46
    keywords: action; american; army; attack; august; battle; bay; blockade; britain; british; british squadron; brown; canada; captain; capture; chauncey; chesapeake; coast; command; commander; commerce; conditions; course; day; effect; end; enemy; erie; fleet; force; fort; frigate; general; government; great; guns; harbor; july; june; kingston; lake; lawrence; left; letters; line; men; miles; military; naval; navy; new; niagara; north; officer; operations; peace; perry; point; position; president; register; report; river; sackett; sea; secretary; ship; squadron; states; time; trade; troops; united; united states; vessels; vol; war; west; wind; yeo; york
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 27244
      author: Edelsheim, Franz, Freiherr von
       title: Operations Upon the Sea: A Study
        date: None
       words: 12843
      flesch: 61
     summary: The interior arrangements of a steamer to be used for troop transport must be planned according to law. It should be so managed that a line of land operations would be in close juncture with the fleet, through which we would be in a position to seize, within a short time, many of these important and rich cities, to interrupt their means of supply, disorganize all governmental affairs, assume control of all useful buildings, confiscate all war and transport supplies, and lastly, to impose heavy indemnities.
    keywords: army; battle; fleet; forces; horses; landing; operations; sea; ships; strength; time; transport; transport fleet; troops; war
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