Naval History of Great Britain, Including the History and Lives of the British Admirals, Vol. 1 of 8 (Classic Reprint) by Photographer John Campbell (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Naval History of Great Britain, Including the History and Lives of the British Admirals, Vol. 1 of 8 The general utility and great importance of Naval History to the inhabitants of Britain, says Dr. Campbell, are obvious from our being seated in an island; whence it is evident, that, to navigation, we owe our very being as a people. Next to this, is the consideration, that we are a commercial nation, from whence we equally derive internal and external advantages, have enlarged our correspondence to the utmost limits of the globe, whither we have carried our own commodities and manufactures, and have brought from them whatever was esteemed either valuable op singular. The great figure we make in the world, and the wide extent of our power and influence, are due to our naval strength, to which we stand indebted for our flourishing plantations, the spreading the British fame, and, which is of far greater consequence, British freedom, through every quarter of the universe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.