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Had the English Navy forced the Dardanelles, it would have taken Turkey out of the war, crippled Germany, avoided the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, World War II, and the Cold War, he said.

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Liverpool, as one of the country's most influential ports, wanted to pay a significant salute to Nelson who was killed while leading the English navy to victory at Trafal gar in 1805 against French Napoleonic forces and the Spanish.

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With the development of the English navy, beginning from the mid-seventeenth century, timber resources for shipbuilding became a primary concern in the management of woods within the English royal forests.

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He can also be credited with establishing the English Navy.

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He may have been involved in the political squabbles that were almost destroying the fighting capacity of the English navy. He may have been jealous of the Dutch.

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Finally, what legacy did the Irish operations have on the English navy, especially in the First Anglo-Dutch War?

Elaine Murphy. Ireland and the War at Sea: 1641-1653

The present day MPs are simply not interested, some examples are Gordon Brown referring to the "English Navy", Obama Beach instead of Omaha Beach at the D-Day remembrance service and the famous words of the then defence minister John Reid, when he put our troops in Helmand Province 'They may be only there for two years without a shot being fired'.

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Which Anglo-Saxon king is accredited with founding the first English navy?

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Henry Kamen, an Oxford-educated historian residing in both Spain and the United States, has written extensively before on the Spanish Inquisition, the rise of Spain as a world power from 1492 to 1763,and a biography of King Philip II, who was a powerful sixteenth-century monarch but lost his Armada to the English navy in 1588.

The Disinherited: Exile and the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492 to 1975

In the English navy there was a (better) "measure of equilibrium between seamanship and military virtues" (p.

Norbert Elias, The Genesis of the Naval Profession

The victory made the English navy feared all over Europe, while at home it aroused tremendous admiration and pride.

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Unfortunately little remains of this Medieval town thanks to the RAF, but the huge battlements of the fort and port defences remain intact, showing why the English Navy was so fascinated and bothered by the place during the Napoleonic Wars.

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