Fleet Actions off Grenada, Dominica, and Chesapeake Bay. Its Influence upon the Course of the American Revolution. Chapter X: Maritime War in North America and West Indies, 1778–1781.Maritime War Consequent upon the American Revolution. Chapter IX: Course of Events from the Peace of Paris to 1778.Sea Battles: Byng off Minorca Hawke and Conflans Pocock and D'Ache in East Indies. England's Overwhelming Power and Conquests on the Seas, in North America, Europe, and East and West Indies. Chapter VIII: Seven Years' War, 1756–1763.Sea Battles of Matthews, Anson, and Hawke. France Joins Spain Against Great Britain, 1744. Chapter VII: War Between Great Britain and Spain, 1739.Great Britain Declares War Against Spain, 1715–1739. English Contraband Trade in Spanish America. Chapter V: War of the Spanish Succession, 1702–1713.Sea Battles of Beachy Head and La Hougue.
War of the League of Augsburg, 1688–1697. Sea Battles of Solebay, the Texel, and Stromboli. Finally, of France Against Combined Europe, 1674–1678. Chapter III: War of England and France in Alliance Against the United Provinces, 1672–1674.Sea Battles of Lowestoft and of the Four Days. Chapter I: Discussion of the Elements of Sea Power.
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The book then goes on to describe a series of European and American wars and how naval power was used in each. Mahan also promoted the belief that any army would succumb to a strong naval blockade. He identified such features as geography, population, and government, and expanded the definition of sea power as comprising a strong navy and commercial fleet. Mahan began the book with an examination of what factors led to a supremacy of the seas, especially how Great Britain was able to rise to its near dominance. The book was published by Mahan while president of the US Naval War College, and was a culmination of his ideas regarding naval warfare. Mahan formulated his concept of sea power while reading a history book in Lima, Peru, after having observed the final stages of the War of the Pacific, in which Chile decisively defeated an alliance of Peru and Bolivia after seizing naval superiority. It is also cited as one of the contributing factors of the United States becoming a great power.
Its policies were quickly adopted by most major navies, ultimately leading to the World War I naval arms race. Scholars considered it the single most influential book in naval strategy. It details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discussed the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet. The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare published in 1890 by the American naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan.
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