A few extracts, from the best authors, on naval tactics, to be found also in Dobson's encyclopedia : the extracts selected, and some short notes made merely to show the advantages of a curve line of battle, out of the ordinary mode

A few extracts, from the best authors, on naval tactics, to be found also in Dobson's encyclopedia : the extracts selected, and some short notes made merely to show the advantages of a curve line of battle, out of the ordinary mode

Naval tactics, or, The military operations of fleets

Philadelphia Printed by A. Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1806

15 p. ; 23 cm

L2007F102 1806 M

(OCoLC)84742721

Caption title: Naval tactics, or, The military operations of fleets
Truxtun cites many French writers on naval tactics & opines that the French have done a better job than the British in educating their future officers; also considers the orders of sailing and notes how Nelson "always deviated from the former and present systems of naval tactics."
Includes Truxtun's footnotes in which his curved line of battle is argued

Shaw & Shoemaker 11477

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