The Struggle for Control of the Sea in the eastern Channel and Pas-de-Calais during the Great War
Villiers, Patrick
The Struggle for Control of the Sea in the eastern Channel and Pas-de-Calais during the Great War - 2012.
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The struggle for control of the sea has too often been ignored in the studies of the First World War. The leading nations launched ambitious programs in shipbuilding from the 1880s to the 1910s. The submarine brought drastic changes in strategic thinking at the beginning of the war, while the maintenance of cross-Channel communications was vital to supplying the Yser and Somme fronts. The Anglo-French “naval dust” [unlisted small warships] under the command of Admirals Bacon and Ronarc’h, who triumphed in the war of mine-laying and mine-sweeping and put an end to the submarine threat, was the main agent in this forgotten victory.
The Struggle for Control of the Sea in the eastern Channel and Pas-de-Calais during the Great War - 2012.
69
The struggle for control of the sea has too often been ignored in the studies of the First World War. The leading nations launched ambitious programs in shipbuilding from the 1880s to the 1910s. The submarine brought drastic changes in strategic thinking at the beginning of the war, while the maintenance of cross-Channel communications was vital to supplying the Yser and Somme fronts. The Anglo-French “naval dust” [unlisted small warships] under the command of Admirals Bacon and Ronarc’h, who triumphed in the war of mine-laying and mine-sweeping and put an end to the submarine threat, was the main agent in this forgotten victory.
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