Richard Harding for UCL. This is another excellent book from UCL. This is quite one of the handiest summaries of this period I have read. Nary a taff-rail or studdsail in sight as we deal with real naval history. The question is whether one can maintain a battle-fleet in the Caribbean, or outfit ships at Brest rather than the minutiae of tactics. Harding operates chronologically as the first battlefeets appear in the Dutch wars. We move through the wars of Louis XIV with the Maritime Powers establishing themselves. Then into the Austrian War with its even results and the Seven Years War with the very opposite. The American War sees a last ditch attempt to unseat the Royal Navy. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, for all their danger, being less worrisome for the British. Very good analysis indeed and strongly recommended. More Old Duffer's Book Corner (book reviews) Exercise of Arms: Warfare in the Netherlands 1568-1648 The Anglo-Scots Wars 1513-1550 Seapower and Naval Warfare 1650-1830 The Making of A World Power The Punic Wars The Roman Army At War 100BC – AD200 The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire The Victory of Seapower: Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814 Vittoria 1813 The Battle of Koniggratz 1866 and The History of K.u.K Infantry Regiment Graf Khevenhuller-Metsch Nr 35 Patton The Navy At War 1939-1945 Medieval Warfare From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fall of A Great Power The Army of Francis Joseph Back to Perfidious Albion #100 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com