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The First Fleets : Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775 - Benjamin C. Schaffer

The First Fleets

Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775

By: Benjamin C. Schaffer

Hardcover | 15 May 2025

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The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution.

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