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ОглавлениеBOOK III THE AGE OF STEAM AND STEEL
VIKING MAN-OF-WAR. . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
CHAPTER I THE VERY BEGINNING OP SEA-POWER (10,000 years and more B.C.)
[Illustration: "DUG-OUT" CANOE]
THE FIRST FAR WEST (The last 5000 years B.C.)
EAST AGAINST WEST (480-146 B.C.)
[Illustration: ROMAN TRIREME—A vessel with three benches of oars]
CELTIC BRITAIN UNDER ROME (55 B.C.-410 A.D.)
THE IMPERIAL NORMAN (1066-1451)
[Illustration: WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S TRANSPORTS]
KING OF THE ENGLISH SEA (1545)
PART I THE SPANISH WAR (1568-1596)
CHAPTER VIII OLD SPAIN AND NEW (1492-1571)
THE ENGLISH SEA-DOGS (1545-1580)
[Illustration: One of Drake's Men-of-War that Fought the Great Armada in 1588.]
[Illustration: ARMADA OFF FOWEY (Cornwall) as first seen in the English Channel.]
CHAPTER XI THE FIRST DUTCH WAR (1623-1653)
[Illustration: SAILING SHIP. The Pilgrim Fathers crossed in a similar vessel (1620) .]
THE SECOND AND THIRD DUTCH WARS (1665-1673)
CHAPTER XIII THE FIRST WAR AGAINST LOUIS XIV (1689-1697)
[Illustration: LA HOGUE, 1692.]
THE SECOND WAR AGAINST LOUIS XIV (1702-1713)
WAR AGAINST FRANCE AND SPAIN (1739-1748)
PITT'S IMPERIAL WAR (1756-1763)
[Illustration: The ROYAL GEORGE ]
ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE Written when the news arrived (September, 1782) .
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1775-1783)
[Illustration: FIGHTING THE GUNS ON THE MAIN DECK, 1782.]
[Illustration: THE BLOWING UP OF L'ORIENT DURING THE BATTLE OF THE NILE.]
[Illustration: THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN, APRIL 2nd, 1801. (Note the British line ahead.) ]
[Illustration: TRAFALGAR. 21st October, 1805.]
[Illustration: THE SHANNON AND THE CHESAPEAKE .]
PART I A CENTURY OF CHANGE (1814-1914)
CHAPTER XX A CENTURY OF BRITISH-FRENCH-AMERICAN PEACE (1815-1914)
A CENTURY OF MINOR BRITISH WARS (1815-1914)
FIFTY YEARS OF WARNING (1864-1914)
[Illustration: Seaplane Returning after flight.]
[Illustration: A PARTING SHOT FROM THE TURKS AT GALLIPOLI.]
[Illustration: LIGHT CRUISER.]
[Illustration: H.M.S. Monmouth , Armoured Cruiser. Sunk at Coronel, November 1st, 1914.]
[Illustration: BATTLESHIP FIRING A BROADSIDE.]
[Illustration: Jellicoe's Battle Fleet in Columns of Divisions. 6.14 P.M.]
[Illustration: THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND—PLAN II. Jellicoe's battle line formed and fighting. 6:38 P.M.]
[Illustration: British Submarine.]
[Illustration: Minesweeper at work.]
