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This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the character, limitations, and potentialitie

This volume follows the organisation of the editor's seminal study, Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole (1965), but the documents presented here represen

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has emphasised developments in the political, constitutional and