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Charts of war the maps and charts that have informed and illustrated war at sea

"From the ships of small expeditionary fleets, which carried navigational charts, to the requirements of modern ships involved in combined operations, which need charts to include a whole range of information, John Blake has produced an illustrated account of the role that charts have played in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blake, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Conway Maritime 2006.
Subjects:
Nautical charts > History.
Naval battles > Maps > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The ancient chart
  • The age of discoveries: the Renaissance chart, 1493-1599
  • American gold: attrition of spanish and portuguese empires, 1600-1715
  • The ancien rĂ©gime: European, American and Asian war, 1700-93
  • Birth of a nation: the American War of Independence, 1776-82
  • Charts of global war: the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815
  • Brother against brother: the American Civil War, 1861-5
  • The modern chart of war.

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