id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13529 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 .txt text/plain 214498 8701 65 In the days of sailing-ships, the English fleet operated Louis' life no great French fleet put to sea, though there was In the Seven Years' War France lost thirty-seven ships-of-the-line and and a century later a great French fleet escaped from the English English, without declaration of war, attacked a fleet of Dutch power so great that the French fleet in the first years of the war ships-of-war were dismissed to join the English grand fleet, which, ships engaged were, French seventy, English and Dutch according to years following 1743, French fleets instead of English had controlled leading English ships brought the French rear to action. sea power of England over France and Spain united. States-General, the French navy numbered eighty-six ships-of-the-line, fleet more than the English, the French flag-ship losing her main and French fleet,--for the ships which did not go back to France returned The French numbered fourteen ships-of-the-line to twelve English. ./cache/13529.txt ./txt/13529.txt