Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical SectionPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Persian Gulf: French and Portuguese Possessions
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914
Author: Stephen S RobertsPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1526745364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
In 1859 the French navy was at a high point, having fought alongside the British in the Crimean War and developed a formidable fleet of fast wooden-hulled steam ships of the line. But in that very year the world’s navies had to start over again when French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme introduced the ironclad battleship. The French navy then went through three tumultuous phases. In the 1860s and 1870s it focused on building a new traditionally-structured fleet in which wooden-hulled battleships gave way to iron and steel ships with massive guns and armour. In the 1880s and 1890s this effort was disrupted by a vigorous contest between battleship sailors and advocates of fast steel cruisers and small torpedo craft, leaving France by the end of the 1890s with few new battleships (none as large as the best foreign ships) but some two hundred torpedo boats. The Fashoda crisis in 1898 revealed the weakness of the French navy and between 1900 and 1914 the French focused on building a strong battle fleet. In 1914 this fleet remained well behind those of Britain and Germany in numbers, but taken individually French warships remained among the best in the world. This book is the first comprehensive listing in English of the over 1400 warships that were added to the official French navy fleet list between 1 January 1859 and World War I. It includes everything from the largest battleships to a small armoured gunboat that looked like a floating egg. The ships are listed in three separate parts to keep contemporary ships together and then by ship type and class. For each class the book provides a design history explaining why the ships were built, substantial technical characteristics for the ships as completed and after major reconstructions, and selected career milestones including the ultimate fate of each ship. Like its predecessors written jointly with Rif Winfield, French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786 and French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861, with which it forms the third in a trilogy, it provides a complete picture of the overall development of French warships over a period of almost three centuries.
Persian Gulf : French and Portuguese possessions, no. 76-81
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical SectionPublisher:
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Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical SectionPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office: Persian Gulf : French and Portuguese possessions, no. 76-81
Author: Peace Handbooks: Persian Gulf : French and Portuguese possessions, no. 76-81
Author: Comparative Colonial Policy
Author: Vangala Shiva RamPublisher:
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
1832-1881
Author: Henri MartinLiterature of Travel and Exploration: G to P
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584245
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
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