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The American Revolution was a naval warfare of immense range and variety, including no less than 22 navies preventing on five oceans - to state nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other warfare were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval struggle in all of British, French, and American record. Simultaneous naval promotions were fought in the English Route, in the North and Mid-Atlantic, in the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, in the Caribbean, in the Pacific, in the North Sea and, of course, from the Eastern Seaboard of America. Not before Second World Battle would any nation actively deal with in a wide variety of theaters. In The Have difficulty for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key armed service event in the road to American self-reliance from a naval perspective, and he brings this important viewpoint to keep on economic, politics, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing this, Willis offers valuable new insights to North american, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian record. The effect is an even more profound knowledge of the impact of sea electricity upon record, of the American path to self-reliance, and of the surge and fall season of the British Empire.
