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Ashore and Afloat The British Navy and the Halifax Naval Yard Before 1820
Author: Julian Gwyn
Year: 2004
Number of pages: 362
Format: PDF
File size: 27,7 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2004
Number of pages: 362
Format: PDF
File size: 27,7 MB
Language: ENG
To help sustain its expanding empire in the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries, Britain and the Royal Navy needed overseas naval bases to support the burden placed on its home yards. When their ambitions in North America accelerated in the 1740s and 1750s and proved enduring, the home yard of Portsmouth could no longer adequately support the North American squadron, established in 1745.