Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24797-h.htm or 24797-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/9/24797/24797-h/24797-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/9/24797/24797-h.zip) This volume has been called into being by the absence of any brief work covering the evolution and influence of sea power from the beginnings to the present time. In a survey at once so comprehensive and so short, only the high points of naval history can be touched. Yet it is the hope of the authors that they have not, for that reason, slighted the significance of the story. Naval history is more th…
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