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Название: Ashore and Afloat: The British Navy and the Halifax Naval Yard Before 1820
Автор: Julian Gwyn
Издательство: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776630318
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 362
Размер: 27,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
To help sustain its expanding empire in the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries, Britain and the Royal Navy needed overseas naval bases to support the burden placed on its home yards. When their ambitions in North America accelerated in the 1740s and 1750s and proved enduring, the home yard of Portsmouth could no longer adequately support the North American squadron, established in 1745.