The First Fleets
232 pages, 6 x 9
10 bw figures - 1 map
Paperback
Release Date:15 May 2025
ISBN:9780817362065
Hardcover
Release Date:15 Jun 2025
ISBN:9780817322342
The First Fleets
Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630–1775
University of Alabama Press
The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution.
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