Military and Naval
The Cross in the Sky: Contents
Foreword – Dick SmithDedicationIntroductionFamily BackgroundAcknowledgementsCo-Author’s NoteReferences EPISODES I LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTERCall to ArmsThe Trench Bombers of GivenchyThe Kick-off at Loos II GREEN FIELDS BEYONDIn and Out of Line“That Minenwerfer Hour” – Vimy RidgeGreen Fields BeyondFarewell the UhlansEpilogue III ZEPPELINE EIN FOKKER UNDT EIN ALBATROSDefending LondonJump or BurnBack to the Trenches IV AN UNDESIRABLE IN FESTUNG NEUNFlakgruppe 49Court Martial at…
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SYRACUSE
415–413 b.c. Forced Engaged Syracusan: Unknown, although probably roughly equal to Athenians; included 4,400 Spartans. Commander: Gylippus. Athenian: Approximately 200 galleys and 45,000 to 50,000 men. Commander: Nicias and then Demosthenes. Importance Athenian defeat broke the naval dominance of the eastern Mediterranean by the Athenians, led to their downfall as…
VENETIANS, GENOESE AND TURKS: THE MEDITERRANEAN 1300–1500
galia grosse late Fourteenth Century By Susan Rose In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the sources of evidence for naval warfare in the Mediterranean are both more copious and more reliable than those for the earlier period. Not only are there chronicle sources but also two of the major players…
NORMANS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN C.1050-1150
Robert Guiscard’s defeat of papal forces at Civitate (1053) was followed by campaigns to control the ports of southern Italy. He then used their fleets to support his nephew Roger’s conquest of Sicily and his own attempts on the Byzantine Empire. At Durazzo (1081) the Varangian Guard drove off the…
Grace Dieu 1420
I never saw so large and so beautiful a construction’ Luca di Masa degli Albizzi, Florentine Captain of the Galleys, 1430. The greatest of all medieval ships, Henry V’s the Grace Dieu was a remarkable vessel of a similar size to HMS Victory, although with her towering castles she looked…
Henry V and the war at sea
The first few months of Henry V’s reign gave little indication that any radical change in the appreciation of naval power was in the offing. The clerk of the king’s ships for the period March to June 1413, one William Loveney, stated in his accounts that he had neither received…
NAVAL WARFARE IN THE 100 YEARS WAR
Battle of Sluys Although noblemen were not trained for naval warfare, which, unlike fighting on land, was not considered a noble pursuit, naval operations were an important part of the HUNDRED YEARS WAR. The English, being the aggressors, required ships to transport men, supplies, and equipment, as well as…