A. T. MahanThe Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
Introductory; 1. Discussion of the elements of sea power; 2. State of Europe in 1660. Second Anglo-Dutch War
1665-1667. Sea battles of Lowestoft and of the Four Days; 3. War of England and France in alliance against the United Provinces
1672-1674. Finally
of France against combined Europe
1674-1678. Sea battles of Solebay
the Texel
and Stromboli; 4. English Revolution. War of the League of Augsburg
1688-1697. Sea battles of Beachy Head and La Hougue; 5. War of the Spanish Succession
1702-1713. Sea Bettle of Malaga; 6. The Regency in France. Alberoni in Spain. Policies of Walpole and Fleurl. War of the Polish Succession. English contraband trade in Spanish America. Great Britain declares war against Spain. 1715-1739; 7. War between Great Britain and Spain
1739. War of the Austrian Succession
1740. France joins Spain against Great Britain
1744. Sea battles of Matthews
Anson
and Hawke. Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle
1748; 8. Seven Years' War
1756-1763. England's overwhelming power and conquests on the seas
in North America
Europe
and East and West Indies. Sea battles: Byng off Minorca; Hawke and Conflands; Pocock and D'Aché in East Indies; 9. Course of events from the Peace of Paris to 1778. Maritime war consequent upon the American Revolution. Sea battle off Ushant; 10. Maritime war in North America in North America and West Indies
1778-1781. Its influence upon the course of the American Revolution. Fleet actions off Grenada
Dominica
and Chesapeake Bay; 11. Maritime War in Europe
1779-1782; 12. Events in the East Indies
1778-1781. Suffren sails from Brest for India
1781. His brilliant naval campaign in the Indian Seas
1782
1783; 13. Events in the West Indies after the surrender of Yorktown. Encounters of De Grasse with Hood. The sea battle of the Saints. 1781-1782; 14. Critical discussion of the Maritime War of 1778; Index.
