Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Drake and the Tudor Navy, Vol. 1 of 2: With a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime Power
The conspicuous technical feature Of the maritime revolution which in the sixteenth century transferred the focus of the naval art from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic is the transition from galley warfare to warfare under sail; and the history Of that transition, of its causes, its development, and its results, is the history of the rise of the English naval supremacy.
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