Julian S. Corbett

Successors to Drake (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The present work is designed as a sequel to Drake and the Tudor Navy (1898), to which it practically forms a third and concluding volume, carrying the reader through the period of hostilities with Spain which extended from the death of Drake in 1596 to the conclusion of the war at James I.'s accession.It is a period which, if we except the operations of Essex at Cadiz in 1596, has been much neglected by historians and as much misunderstood. [...]Mainly the work is concerned with naval history, hut not so exclusively as the two previous volumes. Military affairs begin to intrude themselves. Indeed it is doubtful whether the naval and the military history of England should ever be written apart. The real importance of maritime power is its influence on military operations. This is the thesis which lies at the bottom of all the teaching with which Captain Mahan's name is pre-eminently associated. [...]The direction of a great war can only be followed out in the mutual reaction of the two forces, and how closely they are inter-dependent nothing shows more emphatically than the last years of the Elizabethan war. It is impossible to deal adequately with the naval operations without understanding what the soldiers were doing. To treat, for instance, of the action of the fleet during the Spanish descent on Ireland in 1601 without following the strategy ashore might be naval chronicling. It would not be history.WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tannenberg Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787202283
• Artikelnr.: 46917154

Autorenporträt

Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (12 November 1854 - 21 September 1922) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era. Born in Lambeth, South East London, one of his most famous works is Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1911), which remains a classic among students of naval warfare. He was a good friend and ally of naval reformer Admiral John "Jacky" Fisher, the First Sea Lord, and was chosen to write the official history of British Naval operations during World War I. Corbett died in Sussex in 1922.