Nicholas Rodger Quotes

• Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

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  Water, Dominance, Projects

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• The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.

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  Sailor, Saws, Weakness

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• It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.

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  Hurt, Fighting, Gun

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• La Inglaterra medieval era una gran potencia militar con una sofisticada maquinaria de gobierno, pero su administración naval, en el mejor de los casos improvisada y durante largos periodos desaparecida por completo, señalaba una grave debilidad: la falta de medios fiables para poner una fuerza de buques de guerra a disposición de la corona. De todos los reyes de Inglaterra, sólo Ricardo I y Enrique V se puede decir que comprendieron el problema e intentaron remediarlo. No es casualidad que fueran, con diferencia, los que más éxito tuvieron en la guerra.

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  Kings, Military, War

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• En todas las épocas, Estados de tamaño y constitución variables y en todos los niveles de desarrollo han encontrado en la guerra naval una de sus tareas más formidables y costosas. Los barcos siempre han sido grandes, costosos y complicados, y los buques de guerra mucho más complicados y costosos que cualquier otro. Hoy en día, los estudiosos se inclinan por destacar el poder, la riqueza y la sofisticación de los reinos anglosajones, y no hay ilustración más llamativa de ello que las avanzadas y elaboradas estructuras administrativas de la primitiva armada inglesa.

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  Illustration, Naval Warfare, Navy

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• 'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is simply the British Isles as a whole, but not any particular nation or state or our own day... 'Britain' is not a perfect word for this purpose, but 'Britain and Ireland' would be both cumbersome and misleading, implying an equality of treatment which is not possible. Ireland and the Irish figure often in this book, but Irish naval history, in the sense of the history of Irish fleets, is largely a history of what might have been rather than what actually happened.

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  Book, Mean, Perfect

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• Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.

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  Writing, Sea, Peaceful

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• Su tema es el lento y errático proceso por el que los pueblos de las Islas Británicas aprendieron -y luego olvidaron durante largos periodos- la "Salvaguardia del Mar", como se decía en el siglo XV, es decir, el uso del mar para la defensa nacional y la defensa de quienes lo utilizaban.

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  Sea, Long, Phrases

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• No es sorprendente que sólo un estado medieval, Venecia, poseyera durante mucho tiempo algo claramente identificable como una marina en este sentido. Veremos que ningún estado de las Islas Británicas alcanzó este nivel de sofisticación antes del siglo XVI, y ninguna historia de la Royal Navy, en ningún sentido exacto de las palabras, podría comenzar legítimamente mucho antes de entonces. Este libro, que sí lo hace, no es una historia institucional de la Royal Navy, sino una historia de la guerra naval como aspecto de la historia nacional. Se ocupa de todos y cada uno de los métodos de lucha en el mar o de la utilización del mar con fines bélicos.

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  Book, Fighting, Sea

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• The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.

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  War, Fighting, Past

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• The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.

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  Country, Attitude, Home

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