From Howard to Nelson
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Excerpt from From Howard to Nelson: Twelve Sailors Being considered one to whom Chronology as well as Geography is part of the stock-in-trade, the Editor has often been asked to assign a date to the birth of the English navy. He has always answered that it is impossible to do so; that the navy, like the family of Douglas, is seen in the stream but not in the fountain; that when English history begins, the navy was already an English institution; that the first mention of the English people that has come down to us, describes them as fierce pirates, the terror of the North Sea; and the name of the Saxon shore, the name of England itself, bears testimony to the continuance of their early sea power. What was done in later years by Alfred or Ethelred or Henry VIII, was work of reconstruction, of reorganization, of improved administration - such as the present century has known when the navy board was abolished, in 1832; when screw line-of-battle ships took the place of sailing ships in 1853-60, or were themselves superseded by the ironclads of the present day. But great as was the work accomplished in each of their reigns, the navy was not called into being by Alfred, or Ethelred, or Henry VIII, any more than it was by William IV or Victoria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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