By Sam Willis
For the 1st time, Sam Willis bargains a desirable naval point of view to at least one of the best of all old conundrums: How did 13 remoted colonies, who, in 1775 begun a warfare with Britain and not using a military or a military, win their independence from the best naval and armed forces strength on earth?
The American Revolution was once a naval conflict of monstrous scope and diversity, together with a minimum of twenty-two navies struggling with on 5 oceans - to claim not anything of rivers and lakes. In no different conflict have been such a lot of large-scale fleet battles fought, certainly one of which was once the main strategically major naval conflict in all of British, French and American heritage. Simultaneous naval campaigns have been fought within the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, within the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, after all, off the jap Seaboard of the US. now not till the second one global struggle may any state actively struggle in such a lot of diverse theatres.
In The fight for Sea Power, Sam Willis lines each key army occasion within the route to American Independence from a naval point of view and he additionally brings this significant perspective to endure on fiscal, political and social advancements that have been basic to the luck of the Revolution. In doing so Willis bargains precious new insights to American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian history.
the result's a much more profound knowing of the effect of sea strength upon background, of the yank route to independence and of the increase and fall of the British Empire.
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