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The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship 1650-1840
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Hardcover
With Brian Lavery (other contributor) |
from Book Sales (September 1, 2000)
9780785812678 | details & prices | 10.25 × 12.00 × 1.00 in. | 2.90 lbs | List price $24.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
from Naval Inst Pr (September 1, 1992); titled "The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship, 1650-1840"
9781557505019 | details & prices | 10.25 × 12.00 × 0.75 in. | 2.70 lbs | List price $48.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
With Brian Lavery (other contributor) |
from Conway Maritime Pr (December 3, 2004)
9780851779546 | details & prices | 208 pages | 9.50 × 11.25 × 0.75 in. | 2.05 lbs | List price $27.95
About: 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.
About: 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.