The evolution of fighting tactics 1650-1815.

Based on the life's work of the naval historian Brian Tunstall, this book traces the evolution of fleet tactics from the Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth century to the War of American Independence in the late eighteenth and the defeat of the French Empire in 1815. It covers the entire period in which sailing fleet was the major instrument of naval power.

This book offers the general reader as well as the historian and naval enthusiast an original insight into the workings of the great sailing fleets, and into the problems of control and effective deployment of their forces faced by the commanders in some of the greatest events of naval history; it is unlikely to be superseded as an original study of warfare at sea.

Author: Brian Tunstall
Edited by: Dr Nicholas Tracy

black and white illustrations and maps
278 pages
Reprinted August 2001
254 x 302 mm
Hardback

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