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Title: A History of Sea Power
Author: William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott
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Language: English
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A HISTORY OF SEA POWER
BY
WILLIAM OLIVER STEVENS
AND
ALLAN WESTCOTT
PROFESSORS IN THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
WITH MAPS, DIAGRAMS,
AND ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Page v
PREFACE
This volume has been called into being by the absence of any brief work covering the evolution and influence of sea
power from the beginnings to the present time. In a survey at once so comprehensive and so short, only the high points of
naval history can be touched. Yet it is the hope of the authors that they have not, for that reason, slighted the significance
of the story. Naval history is more than a sequence of battles. Sea power has always been a vital force in the rise and fall
of nations and in the evolution of civilization. It is this significance, this larger, related point of view, which the authors have
tried to make clear in recounting ...
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