The Command of the Ocean
Subtitle: A Naval History of Britain 1649 - 1815
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2006
Number of pages: 976
ISBN-13: 9780141026909
First sentence: The English Commonwealth which executed its former king Charles I on 30 January 1649 was in principle a republic governed by a sovereign Parliament, but the Parliament was the 'Rump' remaining of the Long Parliament (originally elected in 1640) after Colonel Thomas Pride's troops had purged it of all remaining opponents of military rule in December.