Oppenheim, an eminent Victorian historian of naval administration, in 1896. 1 When writing
about the employment of soldiers-at-sea during the First Dutch War, Oppenheim disputed …

HE effects of the weekend crisis of zIst May, 1938, on Hitler were immediate, violent, and far-
reaching. He reserved his undying vengeance for the authors T of his humiliation, the …

These carefully selected captains were asked early in July 1642 to obey the Earl of Warwick,
who was named by Parliament to command the fleet, instead of Pennington. Five of the …

During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–4) the fleet of the Dutch Republic was no match
for the numerically far greater British navy. Her merchant ships were taken and the navy was …

The Maritime Compromise: British and American Naval Co-operation, 1917-1919 Page 1
University of Calgary PRISM Repository https://prism.ucalgary.ca The Vault Open Theses …

By Colonel Rolfe L. Hillman, Jr., US Army (Retired) n the night of 10—11 November 1918,
two battal-Oions of Marines, organic to the Army's 2nd Division, made a grim and bloody …

WHEN Peter the Great undertook the task of creating a Russian fleet in the Baltic, his own
shipbuilding resources were quite inadequate for the purpose. In peace time it might have …

The last large-scale use of merchant ships in the English battlefleet occurred during the
Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1664-67. Though generally ignored by historians of the Navy's …

Heirs to a storied past and glamorized as modern-day knights, the Marine Corps—the elite
fighting force in America's military—in fact has not always been so highly regarded. As Jack …

More than ninety years ago John Knox Laughton, then the guiding light of the Navy Records
Society, promised–but never produced–a kindred vol-ume with the title Official Documents …