by Admiral St Vincent Charles Arthur for the University Press of America 1986. This is a very useful survey of the naval activities of the wars of the first two coalitions. Arthur has a number of bees in his bonnet but this does not prevent some very sensible arguments being adduced. He believes that the war of the first Coalition (which we lost but the Directory was too stupid to grasp this) was the last hoorah of our old style of war. A style defeated by the French when they defeated our land-based proxies. With Europe to draw from the colonial elements of our previous strategy were less important. We had therefore to prevent France being able to use its navy. This requirement was increased in Arthur's view by the destruction of the British Army by Yellow Jack. We therefore faced a period where an invasion of the British Isles might succeed. The answer was, in Arthur's view the Close Blockade of Brest, and St Vincent the man who built it. Old Duffer's Book Corner Book Reviews The First Armies Verdun 1916 Russia's Civil War Luetzen 1632 Philip V of Spain The End of Chivalry Le Roi De Guerre Warships of the Napoleonic Era Cannae The Death of Anglo-Saxon England Ancient Siege Warfare War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870 Forgotten Victory The Remaking of the English Navy Cassino: The Hollow Victory Raising Churchill's Army The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Italy The Irish And British Wars 1637-1654 Cavaliers: The Royalist Army At War 1642-1646 Alamein Normandy 1944 Hill 112 Breaking The Panzers Béveziers (1690) Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-18 Caesar’s Legion Operation Bluecoat Operation Epsom Marching to the Sound of Gunfire The Franco-Prussian War Robert the Bruce’s Irish Wars When Titans Clashed The Wars of Edward III Monte Cassino Under Fire The Somme Roads to Falaise Mud, Blood And Poppycock All The Kaiser’s Men Iron Hulls Iron Hearts A Noble Crusade The Pendulum of Battle: Operation Goodwood The English Resistance The Battle of Koniggrätz Pallas Armata Back to Perfidious Albion #104 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 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