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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Types of Naval Officers, by A. T. Mahan This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy Author: A. T. Mahan Release Date: May 4, 2006 [eBook #18314] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TYPES OF NAVAL OFFICERS*** E-text prepared by Steven Gibbs and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 18314-h.htm or 18314-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/3/1/18314/18314-h/18314-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/3/1/18314/18314-h.zip) TYPES OF NAVAL OFFICERS Drawn from the History of the British Navy With Some Account of the Conditions of Naval Warfare at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, and of its subsequent development during the Sail Period by A. T. Mahan, D.C.L., LL.D. Captain, United States Navy Author of the "Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783," and "Upon the French Revolution and Empire;" of "The Life of Nelson," and a "Life of Farragut" London Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited 1902 Copyright, 1893 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Copyright, 1901_ by A. T. Mahan. All rights reserved November, 1901 University Press . John Wilson and Son . Cambridge, U.S.A. PREFACE Although the distinguished seamen, whose lives and professional characteristics it is the object of this work to present in brief summary, belonged to a service now foreign to that of the United States, they have numerous and varied points of contact with America; most of them very close, and in some instances of marked historical interest. The older men, indeed, were during much of their careers our fellow countrymen in the colonial period, and fought, some side by side with our own people in this new world, others in distant scenes of the widespread strife that characterized the middle of the eighteenth century, the beginnings of "world politics;" when, in a quarrel
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