title: English/British Naval History to 1815: A Guide to the Literature (Bibliographies and Indexes in Military Studies)
author:  Eugene L. Rasor 
description: "Rasor adds a useful survey of gaps and research needed and includes official publications and dissertations, author and subject indexes and is a significant contribution to the field. Recommended for students, scholars, and any collection strong in military history."-Reference &amp; User Services Quarterly<br /><br />"Will be a godsend to any novice, be he a new student of naval history or... from a related subject... This book offers any enquiring student easy access to the core of the subject, an intelligent and rewarding guide, and the basis for future research... We are all in the author's debt."-Nautical Archaeology<br /><br />?Rasor adds a useful survey of gaps and research needed and includes official publications and dissertations, author and subject indexes and is a significant contribution to the field. Recommended for students, scholars, and any collection strong in military history.?-Reference &amp; User Services Quarterly<br /><br />?[W]ill be a godsend to any novice, be he a new student of naval history or... from a related subject... This book offers any enquiring student easy access to the core of the subject, an intelligent and rewarding guide, and the basis for future research... We are all in [the author's] debt.?-Nautical Archaeology<br /><br />"[W]ill be a godsend to any novice, be he a new student of naval history or... from a related subject... This book offers any enquiring student easy access to the core of the subject, an intelligent and rewarding guide, and the basis for future research... We are all in [the author's] debt."-Nautical Archaeology
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  # Types of Naval Officers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### A. T. Mahan
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE
  
  
  INTRODUCTORY
  
  
  HAWKE
  
  
  RODNEY
  
  
  HOWE
  
  
  JERVIS
  
  
  SAUMAREZ
  
  
  PELLEW
  
  
  Index
  
  
  
  
  
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      Types of Naval Officers
  
  
  Drawn from the History of the British Navy
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  TYPES OF NAVAL OFFICERS
  
  
  Drawn from the History of the British Navy
  
  
  With Some Account of the Conditions of Naval Warfare at the
  
  
  beginning of the Eighteenth Century, and of its subsequent development
  
  
  during the Sail Period
  
  
  by
  
  
  A. T. Mahan, D.C.L., LL.D. Captain, United States Navy
  
  
  Author of the “Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783,” and
  
  
  “Upon the French Revolution and Empire;” of “The Life of Nelson,” and a
  
  
  “Life of Farragut”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  London Sampson Low, Marston &Company Limited 1902 Copyright, 1893 by
  
  
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