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OARS, SAILS AND GUNS: THE ENGLISH AND WAR AT SEA, c.1200–c.1500 Part II
A multi-deck Carrack had three masts with the different sails: to the foresail: and mainmasts (by the first and by the second) – straight lines, and on the last third mizzensail to mast there was the slanting Latin sail, which facilitated maneuvering. The patrolmen or pointers were located on the mastheads with the reserve armament. Light naval gun of 1492.…
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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…
The Sea Peoples
Invasions by the mysterious Sea Peoples in the 12th century BC not only devastated the Hittite Empire but also forced the Egyptians back to their traditional Nile kingdom. In Ramses III eighth regnal year, the Sea Peoples attacked. This event, comprising two separate attacks by land and sea, was a…
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…
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…
H-NET REVIEW PUBLICATION: ‘MALTA: A SMALL NATION WITH A HUGE HISTORY’
Ayse Devrim Atauz. Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History: Trade, Piracy, and Naval Warfare in the Central Mediterranean. Gainseville University Press of Florida, 2008. xiv + 379 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3179-8. Reviewed by Thomas Scheben Published on H-War (December, 2008) Commissioned by Brian Ditcham Malta: A Small Nation…