Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PLATES, CHARTS AND PLANS
- PREFACE
- METHOD OF DATING
- Chapter I Means and Ways: The Instrument
- Chapter II Ways and Means: The Use of the Instrument
- Chapter III Mediterranean Outline: Cadiz to Port Mahon
- Chapter IV The French Squadronal Attack on the Trade in the Channel Soundings, 1704
- Chapter V Barcelona, 1705
- CHAPTER VI Toulon, 1707
- CHAPTER VII Cruisers and Convoys in 1707
- CHAPTER VIII “The Alarm from Dunkirk”, 1708
- A Particulars of Typical Ships of Queen Anne's Navy
- B State of Her Majesty's Ships in Commission
- C Confederate Ships of the Line at Home and in the Mediterranean 1702 to 1710
- D State of the French Navy
- E Admiral Fairborne's Proposal for the Main Fleet in 1703
- F The Cruisers and Convoys Act, 1708
- Notes
- Index
- Plate section
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PLATES, CHARTS AND PLANS
- PREFACE
- METHOD OF DATING
- Chapter I Means and Ways: The Instrument
- Chapter II Ways and Means: The Use of the Instrument
- Chapter III Mediterranean Outline: Cadiz to Port Mahon
- Chapter IV The French Squadronal Attack on the Trade in the Channel Soundings, 1704
- Chapter V Barcelona, 1705
- CHAPTER VI Toulon, 1707
- CHAPTER VII Cruisers and Convoys in 1707
- CHAPTER VIII “The Alarm from Dunkirk”, 1708
- A Particulars of Typical Ships of Queen Anne's Navy
- B State of Her Majesty's Ships in Commission
- C Confederate Ships of the Line at Home and in the Mediterranean 1702 to 1710
- D State of the French Navy
- E Admiral Fairborne's Proposal for the Main Fleet in 1703
- F The Cruisers and Convoys Act, 1708
- Notes
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
It is convenient, if not imperative, to detail the story of war at sea by itself, although we can understand the Navy and its services only with a knowledge of affairs on land, social and economic as well as military and political. Accordingly, these studies deal simply with the naval side of the great war Queen Anne and her Allies fought “for reducing the exorbitant power of France”. They do not cover all the ground even in the period chosen, the first seven years of a long war. I have dwelt rather on certain particular services, the great conjunct expeditions in the Mediterranean, the ways and means of securing the lines of passage at sea and preventing invasion.
Despite the cramping handicaps of a rude system of manning the fleet, of ignorance about preserving food and drink on board ship, of rigid dependance on wind and weather, which make the story of deeds two centuries old sound strange in our ears today, I have, while putting the story together, constantly noticed a likeness to events and problems of twenty years ago.
Papers published by the Historical Manuscripts Commission and the Navy Records Society furnish nearly all the printed material for my work, and I thank the Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office and the Council of the Navy Records Society for leave to quote from these papers.
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- War at Sea Under Queen Anne 1702–1708 , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010