Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. MahanLittle, Brown, 1918 - 372 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action Admiral advantage allies American army Atlantic attack Baltic battle battleships belligerent blockade Britain British Bucentaure Cadiz Caribbean Caribbean Sea central position Channel Cienfuegos coast colonial command commerce concentration cruisers Cuba decisive defensive depends EDITOR effect Empire enemy enemy's England English Europe exist fighting flank force Fortress Fleet France French French navy frontier Germany Gulf of Mexico harbors Havana hostile Influence of Sea interest interior lines Isthmus Jamaica Japan Japanese land latter less Mahan maritime ment military Monroe Doctrine Napoleon naval administration naval officers Naval Strategy navy Nelson neutral North North Sea offensive operations Pacific Panama peace political Port Arthur possession practical principle rear result Rodney route Rozhestvensky Russian Sail Santiago sea power ships Spain Spanish squadron strength superior tactics tion Togo Toulon trade Trafalgar Triple Entente troops United vessels victory Villeneuve Vladivostok warfare
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 205 - The second in command will in all possible things direct the movements of his line by keeping them as compact as the nature of the circumstances will admit. Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point. But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do 'very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.
Seite 16 - POWER * /"T*HE first and most obvious light in which the sea •*• presents itself from the political and social point of view is that of a great highway; or better, perhaps, of a wide common, over which men may pass in all directions...
Seite 4 - Therefore the history of sea power, while embracing in its broad sweep all that tends to make a people great upon the sea or by the sea, is largely a military history ; and it is in this aspect that it will be mainly, though not exclusively, regarded in the following pages.
Seite 200 - The reception I met with on joining the fleet caused the sweetest sensation of my life. The officers who came on board to welcome my return, forgot my rank as commander-in-chief in the enthusiasm with which they greeted me.
Seite 204 - Twenty Sail of the Line or to pursue them should they endeavour to make off. If the Van of the Enemy tacks, the captured Ships must run to Leeward of the British Fleet, if the Enemy wears, the British must place themselves between the Enemy and the captured and disabled British Ships and should the enemy close I have no fear as to the result.
Seite 5 - It is then particularly in the field of naval strategy that the teachings of the past have a value which is in no degree lessened. They are there useful not only as illustrative of principles, but also as precedents, owing to the comparative permanence of the conditions. This is less obviously true as to tactics, when the fleets come into collision at the point to which strategic considerations have brought them. The unresting progress of mankind causes continual change in the weapons ; and with...
Seite 98 - It is not the tajdng of individual ships or convoys, be they few or many, that strikes down the money power of a nation; it is the possession of that overbearing power on the sea which drives the enemy's flag from it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive...
Seite 201 - Nelson touch? it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved — ' It was new — it was singular — it was simple ! ' and, from admirals downwards, it was repeated — ' It must succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them!
Seite 205 - The divisions of the British fleet will be brought nearly within gunshot of the enemy's centre. The signal will most probably then be made for the lee line to bear up together, to set all their sails, even steering sails, in order to get as quickly as possible to the enemy's line, and to cut through, beginning from the twelfth ship from the enemy's rear.
Seite 127 - To obey orders is all perfection. To serve my king, and to destroy the French, I consider as the great order of all, from which little ones spring; and if one of these militate against it (for who can tell exactly at a distance ?) I go back and obey the great order and object, to down — down with the damned French villains!