A Treatise on Naval Gunnery
Subtitle: Published with the Approbation and Permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: April 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781402173035
Subjects: treatise,military science,naval gunnery; Technology / Military Science
First sentence: WHEN the navies of Europe, opposed to us in the late war, had been swept from the face of the ocean by the gallant achievements of the British marine, a period of triumphant, undisputed dominion ensued, during which our seamen were not, in general, sufficiently practised in the exercise of those weapons by which that dominion had been gained; but, in the pride and ease of conquest, were suffered, in many instances, to lose much of that proficiency in warlike practice which had been acquired in a long series of arduous service.