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Title: The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

Author: A. T. Mahan

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THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY 1660-1783

by

A. T. MAHAN, D.C.L., LL.D.

Author of "The Influence of Sea Power upon the French
Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812," etc.

Twelfth Edition

[Illustration]

Boston
Little, Brown and Company

Copyright, 1890,
by Captain A. T. Mahan.

Copyright, 1918,
by Ellen Lyle Mahan.

Printed in the United States of America

PREFACE.

The definite object proposed in this work is an examination of the
general history of Europe and America with particular reference to the
effect of sea powe