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The First Fleets

Benjamin C. Schaffer

Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775

Barcode 9780817362065
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Release Date: 31/05/2025

Genre: Law & Politics
Label: The University of Alabama Press
Series: Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
Language: English
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press

Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775
The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution.