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Index
Title Page CHAPTER 1 - THE AGE OF THE GALLEY
Ramses III and the Sea Peoples: Battle on the Nile Clash in the Nile Delta The Development of the Bireme More Oarsmen Salamis, 480 BC: Battle in the Straits The Armies Advance First Clashes Delayed Offensive Battle Begins Costs, Crews and Storage Ramming Tactics The Battle of Salamis in Cyprus, 306 BC Campaign Against the Pirates, 66-67 BC Pompey’s Appointment The Cataphract and Roman Artillery Actium 31 BC: Anthony and Cleopatra’s Last Stand Declaration of War Battle Commences Main Masts in Place Final Evolution of the Ancient Galley
CHAPTER 2 - THE AGE OF CANNON
The Evolution of the Warship The Northern Vessels Converging Developments Early Inventors Gunpowder: The ‘Fire Drug’ Sluys 1340: The Land Battle Fought at Sea Floating Fortress The English Longbow Disintegration Monsters of the Sea Lepanto 1571: Hour of the Galleass A New Weapons System The Strategic Situation The Battle Incendiary Weapons The Armada 1588: Cannon and Flame Gun Carriages and Iron Cannon The Spanish Solution Preparing for the Great Armada First Clashes Clash of Titans More Firepower Flames in the Night Hansando 1592: Iron Turtles, Iron Cannon Pirates to Conquerors The Overlooked Admiral The Turtle Ship A Nation Saved The Battle
CHAPTER 3 - THE AGE OF SAIL
Imperial Spain Versus the Dutch: 1621-1639 The Downs 1638: Spain’s Final Gamble The Dutch Navy The Evolution of the Galleon The Anglo-Dutch Wars: 1652-1672 Medway, 1667: Humiliation of the English Navy Aftermath The Rise and Fall of Louis XIV’s Great Navy: 1661–92 Colbert’s Reforms The French Navy at War Britain’s Wars against the Bourbon Powers, 1713–1783 The Ship of the Line Navies of the Eighteenth Century British Naval Superiority The Warship In Battle Quiberon Bay, 1759: Storms and Audacity Deadly Melee French Revenge Russia and Sweden’s Struggle for Supremacy: 1705–90 The Decline of the Baltic Fleet Skärgårdsflottan: Sweden’s Secret Weapon Gustav III’s Great Naval Gamble The Russo-Swedish War: 1788-1790 Svensksund, 1790: the Swedish Navy’s Finest Hour Carnage
CHAPTER 4 - THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Ships of the Late Eighteenth Century Revolutionary and Napoleonic France The Glorious First of June 1794: Bold Tactics Breaking the Line An Expanding Conflict Blockade The Nelson Touch The Battle of Copenhagen 1801: Subduing the Northern Threat The Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson’s Final Victory Battle is joined Frigates and the War of 1812 British Gunnery Rule Britannia The Steam Revolution The Explosive Shell The Lessons of the Crimea Ironclads and Iron Ships Battle of the Ironclads: The US Civil War First Clash of the Ironclads Dirty Tricks: Torpedoes and Submarines War for the Ports The Battle of Mobile Bay: ‘Damn the Torpedoes’ Lessons of the US Civil War Gunboat Diplomacy Building a Better Gun The New Arms Race
CHAPTER 5 - THE MODERN ERA
From Ironclads to Armoured Ships Changes in Naval Weapon Systems The Battle of Tsushima Naval Build-up Elimination of the Russian Pacific Fleet Enter the Baltic Fleet The Fleets Clash The Endgame Aftermath Dreadnoughts and Battlecruisers Major Operations in World War I The Falkland Islands Minor Naval Operations in the Great War Prelude to Jutland: The Battle of the Dogger Bank The Battle of Jutland The Initial Skirmish The Run to the South The Run to the North The Fleet Action The High Seas Fleet Escapes Aftermath The Submarine War Interwar Developments German Surface Operations in World War II Commerce Protection The Battle of Cape Matapan The First Clash The Air Strikes The Surface Action Aftermath Air Operations The Battle of Midway Deployments Opening Moves The US Carriers Strike Trading Blows Endgame Aftermath Support for Amphibious Operations The Missile Era Naval Warfare in the Modern World
PRAISE FOR THE FIGHTING TECHNIQUES SERIES: FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF NAVAL WARFARE Select Bibliography Index Copyright Page
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