Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare

Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair.

Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea under sail; our knowledge of tactics is largely based upon the ideas of contemporary theorists[rather than practitioners] who knew little of the realities of sailing warfare, and our knowledge of command is similarly flawed. In this book the au...