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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-25 - Publisher: Osprey Publishing
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called ships of the line dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power an
Language: en
Pages: 148
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Despite the many celebrated victories of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the role of the Royal Navy should never be overlooked. The 'wooden walls'
Language: en
Pages: 457
Pages: 457
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-17 - Publisher: Yale University Press
Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: An “impressive” account of how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon’s ultimate defeat (International
Language: en
Pages: 336
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Penguin UK
May, 1810 – and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line ... Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is �