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Full Description
Originally published in 1959, this volume covers the history of the Service which has been through the centuries the first, and often the last line of British defence, and the spearhead of Britian's imperial expansion. In the book Professor Lewis puts the Royal Navy into its true perspective in history in general and maritime history in particular. He shows its origin in the Crown's personal sea-force, still blended with, and largely reliant upon the United Kingdom's total sea-force; and relates how it emerged as the principal fighting element in her sea-strength; principal, but not sole fighting element, because the reserves of the Royal Navy are an integral part of the entire Navy.
Contents
Part 1: The Old Navy 1. Pre-Tudor: Seed-Time 800-1485 2. Henry VII: The Growth of a Sea-Policy, 1485-1509 3. Henry VIII: The Coming of the Warship, 1509-47 4. Elizabeth I: Trade and War, 1547-1603 5. The Early Stuarts: The Failure of the Old Navy, 1603-49 6. The Commonwealth: The State Navy, 1649-60 Part 2: The Royal Navy 7. The Later Stuarts: The Coming of the Royal Navy, 1660-88 8. William and Anne: The French Wars First Phase, 1688-1714 9. Peace and War: Dark Days, 1714-48 10. The Seven Years' War The Winning of Empire, 1748-63 1. American Independence: 'The Navy in Adversity', 1763-83 12. The Revolutionary War: The Navy Against the World, 1783-1802 13. The Napoleonic War: The Triumph of the Royal Navy, 1802-15 Part 3: The New Navy 14. The Nineteenth Century (1): 'Pax Britannica', 1815-1900 15. The Nineteenth Century (2): The Great Transition, 1815-1900 16. Total War (1): The New Navy Finds Itself, 1900-18 17. Total War (2): Sea and Sky, 1918-45.
