1st Edition

Fighting Instructions 1530-1816

By Julian S. Corbett Copyright 1905
    386 Pages
    by Routledge

    386 Pages
    by Routledge

    The views put forward by Corbett in this collection have now been partly discredited, but the collection itself remains of fundamental importance for the study of British naval tactics. It includes both Fighting Instructions in the strict sense, and various orders and memoranda explanatory of them.

    PART I.—EARLY TUDOR PERIOD
    PART II.—ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN
    PART III.—CAROLINGIAN
    PART IV.—THE FIRST DUTCH WAR
    PART V.—THE SECOND DUTCH WAR
    PART VI.—THE THIRD DUTCH WAR TO THE REVOLUTION
    PART VII.—WILLIAM III. AND ANNE
    PART VIII.—ADDITIONAL FIGHTING INSTRUCTIONS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
    PART IX.—THE LAST PHASE

    Biography

    Julian Corbett was born on 12 November 1854 was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he took a first class degree in law, becoming a barrister in the Middle Temple in 1877, practising until 1882, when he turned to writing, starting with historical novels about the Tudor period. He died on 21 September 1922.