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Title: Naval Warfare

Author: James R. Thursfield

Release Date: August 16, 2010 [EBook #33445]

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The Cambridge Manuals of Science and
Literature

NAVAL WARFARE

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

London: FETTER LANE, E.C.

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NAVAL
WARFARE

BY

JAMES R. THURSFIELD

M.A.
Hon. Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

by Rear-Admiral
SIR CHARLES L. OTTLEY
K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O.

Sometime Director of Naval Intelligence
and Secretary to the Committee of
Imperial Defence

Cambridge:
at the University Press

New York:
G.P. Putnam's Sons

1913

_With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the
title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge
printer, John Siberch, 1521_

CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION BY SIR CHARLES OTTLEY vii

PREFACE xiii

CHAP.

I. INTRODUCTORY 1

II. THE COMMAND OF THE SEA 11

III. DISPUTED COMMAND--BLOCKADE 20

IV. DISPUTED COMMAND--THE FLEET IN BEING 30

V. DISPUTED COMMAND IN GENERAL 49

VI. INVASION 68

VII. COMMERCE IN WAR 93

VIII. THE DIFFERENTIAT