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Anson's Navy: Building a Fleet for Empire 1744-1763

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Anson's Navy: Building a Fleet for Empire 1744-1763 - Lavery, Brian
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Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and miscarriages including the devastating sickness in Admiral Hosier's fleet in 1727; failure at Cartagena, and an embarrassing action off Toulon in 1744\. Anson's great circumnavigation, though presented as a triumph, was achieved at huge cost in ships and lives. And in 1756 Admiral Byng was shot after failure off Minorca. In this new book, the bestselling ...

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Anson's Navy: Building a Fleet for Empire 1744-1763 2021, Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley

ISBN-13: 9781399002882

Hardcover