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Coastal Defences of the British Empire : in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic eras /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacCannell, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Barnsley, South Yorkshire ; Havertown, PA : Pen and Sword Military, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Defence against what?
  • 2 The role of forts in coastal defence to 1783
  • 3 'Making provision ... against a future war',1 1784-93
  • 4 Theory and practice of amphibious operations in the eighteenth century
  • 5 Powder and shot
  • 6 From Mortella to Minorca, 1794-98
  • 7 Low treason
  • 8 Invasion and counter-invasion craft of the 1790s
  • 9 'My troops and my other armed subjects'
  • 10 Fathers of the Martello
  • 11 'An all-encompassing attack'
  • 12 Signed, sealed and delivered The south coast towers
  • 13 Peak danger
  • 14 Endgame