Fighting instructions, 1530-1816
1905
359.4 C789fig 1905
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Title
Fighting instructions, 1530-1816
Published
[London] : Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1905.
Description
xvi, 366, 4 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
359.4 C789fig 1905
System Control No.
(OCoLC)01972239
Note
"Fighting instructions. These instructions have been printed in Volume 29 of the Society's publication, Sir Julian Corbett's Fighting instructions. They can also be found in Volume IV of The first Dutch war. Only those actually signed by Blake are here included ..." (p. [463]-476) enclosed at end.
Editor's own copy with annotations; a number of inclusions, reviews, letters, suggested amendments & addenda moved to case file (letter from C.T. Atkinson concerning some instructions given to Grenville Penn in 1653; letter from C.H. Firth directing him to some instructions by James, Duke of York to be found in the Rawlinson papers in the Bodleian; a note from J.K. Laughton forwarding a letter from Basil Lubbock with some points on the Duke of Yorks Supplementary Orders of 1672; letter from Lubbock, "I find myself in complete accordance with your deductions &"; note from Cyprian Bridge concerning Nelsons tactics at Trafalgar; and a series of 4 letters from H.W. Richmond on various points relating to signals and manoeuvres).
Contents: pt. I. Early Tudor period: Alonso de Chaves on sailing tactics. Audley's fleet orders, circa 1530. The adoption of Spanish tactics by Henry VIII -- pt. II. Elizabethan and Jacobean: the Elizabethan origin of Ralegh's instructions -- pt. III. Carolingian: The attempt to apply land formations to the fleet. The ship-money fleets, cira 1635 -- pt. IV. The first Dutch war: English and Dutch orders on the eve of the war, 1648-53. Orders issued during thwar, 1653 and 1654 -- pt. V. The second Dutch war: Orders of the restoration. Monck, Prince Rupert, and the Duke of York -- pt. VI. The third Dutch war to the revolution: Progress of tactics during the war. Mediterranean orders, 1678. The last Stuart orders -- pt. VII. William III, and Anne: Lord Torrington, Tourville, and Hoste. The permanent instructions, 1703-1783 -- pt. VIII. Additional fighting instructions of the eighteenth century: Origin and growth of thadditional instructions. pt. IX. The last phase: The new Signal book instructions. The Signal books of the great war. Nelson's tactical memoranda. Instructions after Trafalgar. The Signal book of 1816 -- Appendix: Further particular of the Trafalgar fight.
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Editor's own copy with annotations; a number of inclusions, reviews, letters, suggested amendments & addenda moved to case file (letter from C.T. Atkinson concerning some instructions given to Grenville Penn in 1653; letter from C.H. Firth directing him to some instructions by James, Duke of York to be found in the Rawlinson papers in the Bodleian; a note from J.K. Laughton forwarding a letter from Basil Lubbock with some points on the Duke of Yorks Supplementary Orders of 1672; letter from Lubbock, "I find myself in complete accordance with your deductions &"; note from Cyprian Bridge concerning Nelsons tactics at Trafalgar; and a series of 4 letters from H.W. Richmond on various points relating to signals and manoeuvres).
Contents: pt. I. Early Tudor period: Alonso de Chaves on sailing tactics. Audley's fleet orders, circa 1530. The adoption of Spanish tactics by Henry VIII -- pt. II. Elizabethan and Jacobean: the Elizabethan origin of Ralegh's instructions -- pt. III. Carolingian: The attempt to apply land formations to the fleet. The ship-money fleets, cira 1635 -- pt. IV. The first Dutch war: English and Dutch orders on the eve of the war, 1648-53. Orders issued during thwar, 1653 and 1654 -- pt. V. The second Dutch war: Orders of the restoration. Monck, Prince Rupert, and the Duke of York -- pt. VI. The third Dutch war to the revolution: Progress of tactics during the war. Mediterranean orders, 1678. The last Stuart orders -- pt. VII. William III, and Anne: Lord Torrington, Tourville, and Hoste. The permanent instructions, 1703-1783 -- pt. VIII. Additional fighting instructions of the eighteenth century: Origin and growth of thadditional instructions. pt. IX. The last phase: The new Signal book instructions. The Signal books of the great war. Nelson's tactical memoranda. Instructions after Trafalgar. The Signal book of 1816 -- Appendix: Further particular of the Trafalgar fight.
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