TAILIEUCHUNG - Flag and Fleet

Who wants to be a raw recruit for life, all thumbs and muddle-mindedness? Well, that is what a boy or girl is bound to be when he or she grows up without knowing what the Royal Navy of our Motherland has done to give the British Empire birth, life, and growth, and all the freedom of the sea. The Navy is not the whole of British sea-power; for the Merchant Service is the other half. Nor is the Navy the only fighting force on which our liberty depends; for we depend upon the United Service of sea and land and air. Moreover, all our fighting. | 1 CHAPTER p I PART I--THE SPANISH WAR PART II--THE DUTCH WAR PART III--THE FRENCH WAR PART I--A CENTURY OF CHANGE 1814-1914 PART II--THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII PART I p THE SPANISH WAR CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X PART II p THE DUTCH WAR CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII PART III p THE FRENCH WAR CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI Flag and Fleet by William Wood 2 CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX PART I p A CENTURY OF CHANGE CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI PART II p THE GREAT WAR CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII Part III Act IV Scene I. em Flag and Fleet by William Wood The Project Gutenberg EBook of Flag and Fleet by William Wood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas Author William Wood Release Date November 17 2006 EBook 19849 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLAG AND FLEET Produced by Al Haines THE SEA IS HIS Thy way is in the sea and Thy path in the great waters and Thy footsteps are not known. --Psalm LXXVII. V. 19. The Sea is His He made it Black gulf and sunlit shoal From barriered bight to where the long Leagues of Atlantic roll Small strait and ceaseless ocean He bade each one to be The Sea is His He made it-- And England keeps it free. By pain and stress and striving Beyond the nations ken By vigils stern when others slept By lives of many men Through nights of storm through dawnings Blacker than midnights be-- This sea that God created England has kept it free. Count me the splendid captains Who sailed with courage high To chart the perilous ways unknown-- Tell me where these men lie To .

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• William Wood
• Frontispiece
• King Henry VIIIs
• Beginning of War
• history
• Freedom of the Seas
• British Navy Won
• Conservation biology
• Developmental biology
• Embryology
• Herpetology