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The Cambridge Manuals of Science andLiterature

NAVAL WARFARE

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

London: FETTER LANE, E.C.

C.F. CLAY, Manager

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Edinburgh: 100 PRINCES STREET
Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO.
Leipzig: F.A. BROCKHAUS
New York: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.

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With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on thetitle page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridgeprinter, John Siberch, 1521


CONTENTS

Introduction by Sir Charles Ottley
Preface

Index

INTRODUCTION

[Pg vii]The title chosen by its author for this little volume would assuredlycommend it to the Naval Service, even if that author's name were not—asit is—a household word with more than one generation of naval officers.But to such of the general public as are not yet familiar with MrThursfield's writings a brief word of introduction may perhaps beuseful. For the matters herein dealt with are by no means of interestonly to the naval profession. They have their bearing also on everycalling and trade. In these days when national policy is at the mercy ofthe ballot-box, it is not too much to say that a right understanding ofthe principles of maritime warfare is almost as desirable amongstcivilians as amongst professional sailors.

Regrettable indeed would it be if the mere fact that this little bookbears a more or less technical title should tempt the careless to skipits pages or pitch it to that dreary limbo which attends even the bestof text-books on subjects which we think do not concern us. The fruitsof naval victory, the calamities attendant on naval defeat are matters[Pg viii]...

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