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Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89 (Paperback)
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Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89 (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 700
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Pepys's Navy describes every aspect the English navy in the second
half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal
was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I,
until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long
period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era
which witnessed the creation of a permanent naval service, in
essence the birth of the Royal Navy. Every aspect of the navy is
covered - naval administration, ship types and shipbuilding, naval
recruitment and crews, seamanship and gunnery, shipboard life,
dockyards and bases, the foreign navies of the period, and the
three major wars which were fought against the Dutch in the Channel
and the North Sea. Samuel Pepys, whose thirty years of service did
so much to replace the ad hoc processes of the past with systems
for construction and administration, is one of the most significant
players, and the navy which was, by 1690, ready for the 100 years
of global struggle with the French owed much to his tireless
work.This is a hugely significant book for historians, naval
enthusiasts and for all those with an interest in Pepys and this
colourful era of the seventeenth century, and a new affordable
paperback edition will be widely welcomed.
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