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Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley. Random House, New York, 2008. $30.00. 315 pps. Often histories of 16th...
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Back to the original sources…
One of the great pleasures of being historically-minded in this, the early 21st century, is the trend among modern historians to return to the original sources rather than relying on what previous...
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The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812…
This is a bit awkward. On the one hand, it’s fair to say that I would have done just about anything to have on hand the information that Andrew Lambert brings to light in the aforementioned tome when...
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Lord Nelson ~ A Different Point of View
Everybody knows the story. He was a lad from Norfolk sent to sea as a younker. He had talent and determination and verve. And over the course of his life, he became Britain’s greatest naval hero, at...
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Lord Nelson ~ a truly English hero…
Today is the 214th anniversary of the Battle of Aboukir Bay–or the Battle of the Nile, if you prefer–one of the three most significant and wow-worthy battles at which Lord Nelson commanded. A brief...
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Gaining a sense of proportion…
Statistics. A lot of people don’t like them. A lot of people start to squirm when you bring them up. Mostly, I think, because stats have his unseemly way of disproving our most favourite and...
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