Overview
The Struggle for Sea Power (Classic Reprint) by M. B. Synge
Excerpt from The Struggle for Sea Power
The wonderful story of England's conquest of India reads, even today, like some fairy legend of the Old World.
It is the story of how one small island, away in the Northern seas, conquered an empire ten times its own size, at a distance of 6000 miles. In the ages of long ago, when the Egyptians were building their pyramids, when the Phoenicians were sailing to the Pillars of Hercules, when the Greeks were adorning Athens and the Romans were spreading their empire far and wide, this England was still Sleeping on the waves of the boundless sea.
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