First Fleets
Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775

By (author) Benjamin C Schaffer,Benjamin C. Schaffer

ISBN13: 9780817362065

Imprint: The University of Alabama Press

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 15/06/2025

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Description
The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution.
  • Military history
  • Naval forces & warfare
  • British & Irish history
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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