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Shipping the Medieval Military : English Maritime Logistics in the Fourteenth Century.

During the fourteenth century England was scarred by famine, plague and warfare. Through such disasters, however, emerged great feats of human endurance. Not only did the English population recover from starvation and disease but thousands of the kingdom's subjects went on to defeat the Scots a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lambert, Craig L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Brewer, Boydell & amp ; 2011.
Colección:Warfare in history.
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  • Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Raising a Fleet; Sources of Shipping; Requisition Orders; Process of Requisition; The Return Passage; 2 The Supply of Armies and Garrisons by Sea, 1320-1360; Logistics and Preparations for War: An Overview of Procedures; The Supply of Armies and the Naval War in Scotland, 1322-1336; Maritime Logistics and the Naval War in Scotland, 1337-1360; The Supply of English Armies in France, 1324-1349; 3 The Transportation of English Armies to France 1324-1360; Preparing the Fleet: A Timetable for Invasion.
  • Two Transport Fleets of Edward II's Reign, 1324-1325The Earl of Surrey's Transport Fleet, 1325; Five Transport Fleets for Edward III's Armies, 1338-1359; The 1355 Transport Fleet for the Black Prince; 4 Maritime Resources and the King's War; Developments in Fleet Organisation; Port Resources; Shipmaster Service and Mariners; Crew Size and Manning; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX 1 Ports that Supplied Ships to the Fleets; APPENDIX 2 Reconstructing the Merchant Fleet: A Methodology; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover.