9780785812678 | Book Sales, September 1, 2000, cover price $24.99 |
About this edition: The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship 1650-1840 Although purpose-built fighting ships had existed earlier, the principal characteristics of the classic sailing warship were only defined in the mid-seventeenth century, when the emergence of strong central governments, as in Cromwell's Commonwealth or the France of Louis XIV, combined with the novel line-ahead tactics to produce, for the first time, national fleets of reasonably similar line-of-battle ships.
9781557505019, titled "The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship, 1650-1840" | Naval Inst Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $48.95 |
About this edition: The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship 1650-1840 Although purpose-built fighting ships had existed earlier, the principal characteristics of the classic sailing warship were only defined in the mid-seventeenth century, when the emergence of strong central governments, as in Cromwell's Commonwealth or the France of Louis XIV, combined with the novel line-ahead tactics to produce, for the first time, national fleets of reasonably similar line-of-battle ships.
9780851779546 | Conway Maritime Pr, December 3, 2004, cover price $27.95 |
About this edition: Although purpose built fighting ships had existed earlier, the principal characteristics of the classic sailing warship were defined in the mid-seventeenth century, and the line of battle ship became ever more distinct.