The Duke
JohnD.Ford
Junior Chimp
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« on: June 20, 2005, 05:57:45 PM » |
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Worth mentioning is that after 1588, Britain indisputably owned the seas. Philip II, Napoleon, and Hitler all tried to defeat Britain, and found that they could not overcome such a vastly superior naval force. Sea power is the lifeblood of Empire, and Britain was the dominant force in Europe from the 16th century onwards and built the largest of the European Empires because of its supremacy on the high seas. France never really came all that close to defeating Britain at sea, and thus failed to overtake Britain.
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