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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution

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A fascinating naval viewpoint on one of the most greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 started a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on the planet?

The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans―to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were such a lot of large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was once the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, of course, off the eastern seaboard of The united states. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in such a lot of different theaters.

In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces each and every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval viewpoint, and he also brings this important standpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history.

This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the upward thrust and fall of the British Empire.

8 pages of color illustrations

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