Naval Actions and History
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Massachusetts, Military Historical Socie) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Naval Actions and History: 1799-1898 My topic this evening is the Old Navy, Historical and Reminiscent, with glances aside at the British Navy. We hear a great deal about the New Navy in these days; but just when and where the Old Navy became merged in, or was swallowed up by, the New is a question that perhaps no man can satisfactorily answer. The conditions of our naval service have not changed a whit more during the past fifty years, except in academic directions, than have the conditions of the British navy, yet I venture to say that no man ever heard the invidious distinction of new and old applied to that grand service - a service which is literally the foster-mother of our own, and unquestionably, as regards organization and homogeneity, strength and mobility, the finest navy the world has ever seen. Nor do we in this country ever hear such distinction applied to our Army; and certainly no man will deny that the Army has kept equal pace with the Navy in meeting the changed conditions of warfare, which the improvements in ordnance and armor, small arms and explosives, electrical appliance and manipulation, have demanded since the close of our civil war. New ships alone do not make a new navy. The spirit of man and his directing hand are required to give them any value whatever as constructions for the defence of the nation. 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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