John D Grainger

The British Navy in the Mediterranean (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean from the earliest times until the present.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the Crusades,and to the seventeenth century, when the Barbary corsairs became a major problem. It outlines Britain's involvement in the wars of the long eighteenth century, when Britain obtained bases at Gibraltar, Minorca and Malta and repeatedly defeated the French and Spanish navies. It examines the navy's activities during the First and Second World Wars, when the Mediterranean was again of crucial strategic significance and a major theatre of war, and goes on toconsider Britain's withdrawal from the Mediterranean in the later twentieth century. Throughout, the book relates naval activity to patterns of trade, including the rise and decline of the Levant Company, and to wider international politics.

JOHN D. GRAINGER is the author of numerous books for a variety of publishers, including seven previously published books for Boydell and Brewer, including The British Navy in the Baltic, Dictionaryof British Naval Battles and The First Pacific War: Britain and Russia, 1854-56.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787442368
• Artikelnr.: 56545247

Autorenporträt

John D. Grainger

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Sea and its Parts, and the Royal Navy Prologue: The Crusades and After (1095
c.1550) The Levant Company and the Assaults on Cadiz (c.1550
c.1600) The Corsairs (c.1600
1660) Tangier and Corsairs (1660
1690) French Wars
I (1688
1713) Conflicts with Spain (1713
1744) French Wars
II (1744
1763) Two Sieges (1763
1783) French Wars
III (1783
1815) Dominance (1815
1856) Ottoman Problems (1856
1905) Great War
I (1905
1923) Great War
II (1923
1945) Supersession (from 1945) Conclusion