Author: Publisher:
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Category : Surveyors, Marine
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Memoirs of Hydrography: 1750-1830
Author: The Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Age
Author: Mark JessopPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 152672040X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In 1801 the newly forged United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland commenced life at war with France and her allies and remained so until 1815. After 1812 she had to shoulder the extra burden of a war against the United States of America. With conflict on multiple fronts, hardships continued to be inflicted at home. Trade was made precarious. People became bone-weary of hostilities and the threat of invasion ran high. Napoléon Bonaparte was no ordinary opponent, and the United States navy showed the world the worth of her ships, but what stood in their way was the Royal Navy. Despite notable losses, after the victory of Trafalgar in 1805 she dominated the seas. Although not the only means, her warships were the nation’s first line of defence that helped keep British shores safe. As the era ended it was obvious the navy had to change. Steam began to alter perspectives with new opportunities. From the vantage point of later decades it could be seen what the Royal Navy had once been and still was. A naval superpower. Britain’s oldest continual military force. The senior service.
Revue Hydrographique
Author: New Arabian Studies Volume 2
Author: P. BidwellPublisher: University of Exeter Press
ISBN: 9780859894524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics. Contributions by Hussein Abdullah al-Amri, Madawi Al-Rasheed, W. J. Donaldson, A. B. D. R. Eagle, Andrey Korotayev, Richard I. Lawless, Eric Macro, Brian Marshall, Mikhail Rodionov, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Martine Vanhove and Jerzy Zdanowski
The International Hydrographic Review
Author: The Mariner's Mirror
Author: Leonard George Carr LaughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Memoirs of a Bombay Mariner
Author: Andrew DunlopPublisher:
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Category : Hydrography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Memoirs of hydrography
Author: Llewellyn Styles DawsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Dead Sea Level
Author: Haim GorenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857719394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In the nineteenth century The Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other as a potentially faster route to India. This is the traditional explanation for the presence of the international powers in the region. This important new book questions this view. Through a study of two important projects of the time - international efforts to determine the exact level of the Dead Sea, and Chesney's Euphrates Expedition to find a quicker route to India - Professor Goren shows how other forces than the interests of empire, were involved. He reveals the important role played by private individuals and establishes a wealth of new connections between the key players; and he reveals for the first time an important Irish nexus. The resulting work adds an important new dimension to our existing understanding of this period.
Imperial Vancouver Island
Author: J. F. BosherPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450059635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 839
Book Description
"During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.