Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas

Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas

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Publisher Description

Who wants to be a raw recruit for life, all thumbs and muddle-mindedness? Well, that is what a boy or girl is bound to be when he or she grows up without knowing what the Royal Navy of our Motherland has done to give the British Empire birth, life, and growth, and all the freedom of the sea.


The Navy is not the whole of British sea-power; for the Merchant Service is the other half. Nor is the Navy the only fighting force on which our liberty depends; for we depend upon the United Service of sea and land and air. Moreover, all our fighting forces, put together, could not have done their proper share toward building up the Empire, nor could they defend it now, unless they always had been, and are still, backed by the People as a whole, by every patriot man and woman, boy and girl.


But while it takes all sorts to make the world, and very many different sorts to make and keep our British Empire of the Free, it is quite as true to say that all our other sorts together could not have made, and cannot keep, our Empire, unless the Royal Navy had kept, and keeps today, true watch and ward over all the British highways of the sea. None of the different parts of the world-wide British Empire are joined together by the land. All are joined together by the sea. Keep the seaways open and we live. Close them and we die.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
1989
23 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
289
Pages
PUBLISHER
Library of Alexandria
SELLER
The Library of Alexandria
SIZE
2.1
MB

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