title: Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious Warfare
author:  Merrill L. Bartlett 
description: Merrill L. Bartlett served as an officer in the Marine Corps for twenty years, with final assignment at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he earned three awards for excellence in teaching history. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of seven books on naval history, and he has published more than a hundred essays, encyclopedia entries, forewords to books, and book reviews. He lives on Vashon Island, WA.
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  # Our Sailors
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### W.H.G. Kingston
  
  
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  * [CHAPTER ONE. OUR SAILORS.](ossa_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER TWO. WAR ON THE COAST OF SYRIA—1840.](ossa_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER THREE. WARFARE IN CHINESE
  
  
  WATERS—1840-1842.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER FOUR. CAPTURE OF A VENEZUELAN
  
  
  SQUADRON—FEBRUARY 1841.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER FIVE. SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY IN
  
  
  BORNEO—RAJAH BROOKE.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER SIX. WARFARE ON THE RIVERS LA PLATA AND
  
  
  PARANA.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER SEVEN. EXPEDITION TO SAN JUAN DE NICARAGUA.](ossa_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [CHAPTER EIGHT. THE DESTRUCTION OF LAGOS—26TH
  
  
  DECEMBER 1851.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER NINE. THE BURMESE WAR—1851-1852.](ossa_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER TEN. THE CRIMEAN WAR.](ossa_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE INDIAN MUTINY.](ossa_split_12.html#1_0_12)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER TWELVE. THE SECOND CHINESE WAR—1856-1860.](ossa_split_13.html#1_0_13)