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"What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 enemy is no longer 2 enemy had no battle 2 power was not equal 2 sea is not essential 1 _ are not quite 1 _ had no friends 1 _ is not _ 1 _ is not materially 1 action is not present 1 action is not war 1 attack is not exactly 1 battle was not long 1 boat has not yet 1 case is not merely 1 case is not so 1 commander have no staff 1 commander is not exclusively 1 commanders do not necessarily 1 commanders took no part 1 enemy had no intention 1 enemy is no worse 1 enemy is not able 1 enemy seemed no less 1 enemy was not long 1 fleet is not there 1 fleet was no longer 1 force be not successfully 1 force was not equal 1 forces were not fit 1 forces were not yet 1 guns are not so 1 guns were not heavy 1 guns were not strong 1 lines were not common 1 man have not yet 1 men made no impression 1 men were not afraid 1 navy be no stronger 1 navy has no armored 1 navy is not directly 1 navy is not only 1 navy is not ready 1 navy knew no bounds 1 navy took no part 1 navy was not homogeneous 1 navy was not necessary 1 navy was not so 1 navy was not strong 1 officers are not so 1 officers had no authority A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 22305 author = Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John) title = The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 date = keywords = Alliance; Boston; CHAPTER; Capt; Chesapeake; Commodore; Congress; Constitution; Decatur; England; Englishman; Essex; France; Great; Jones; Lieut; New; Paul; Perry; Philadelphia; Porter; President; Ranger; Revolution; Richard; States; Tripoli; United; Yankee; York; american; british; english; french; ship summary = battle lanterns on the gun-decks made the open ports of the war-ships harbor, the Americans found nine British vessels lying at anchor. when near the American coast, she fell in with a British vessel to Another time, during the same year, Tucker took two British ships near When morning broke, the Americans saw a large sixteen-gun ship lying several United States men-of-war and armed vessels, among them the United States ships being manned largely by British prisoners. United States a good man-of-war, and forced a ship''s crew of Yankee British ship-of-war had halted them in mid-ocean, and seized American every British man-of-war to stop an American vessel on the high seas, Porter replied that his was an American ship, and the British orders to captains of American war-vessels, directing them to capture American ships by British privateers. British man-of-war, boasted of his ship''s exploits among the American id = 26416 author = Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John) title = The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 date = keywords = Admiral; Alabama; Capt; Captain; Commodore; Confederate; England; Fort; Gen.; Hatteras; Island; Merrimac; Mississippi; Navy; New; North; Orleans; Porter; President; River; States; Sumter; Union; United; Vicksburg; Wasp; Yankee; York; american; british; illustration; man; spanish; vessel summary = men, led by a veteran officer, attacked the little vessel in the commanded the "Argus," took his vessel around Land''s End, and into St. George''s Channel and the Irish Sea. For thirty days he continued his prize, a British fleet of twenty-five sail, with two men-of-war, hove her; and even to-day, when a later war has given to the navy vessels small pilot-boats, mounting one long gun amidships, and carrying crews The vessel which captured the United States ship war-vessels in the United States navy, fell into their hands. ship-houses, and on the decks of the fated vessels left behind, went The next day a United States war-vessel was seen The attacking vessels came nearer, and the men on the Union ships engines in war vessels was illustrated by the British ship "Calliope," ships are a long distance behind the war-vessels of to-day in power, id = 10694 author = Bridge, Cyprian, Sir title = Sea-Power and Other Studies date = keywords = Admiral; Elizabeth; England; English; Footnote; France; Lord; Mahan; Mediterranean; Mr.; Napoleon; Navy; Nelson; Queen; Sir; Spain; Trafalgar; United; british; french; sea; war summary = sea-power, and makes the study of it of great practical importance great expedition, this time by sea as well as by land, that the Grecian seas.''[31] The Turkish wars of Venice lasted a long time. of his country, or worse, because during a great naval war he plan a navy stronger in number of ships or in general efficiency of the American war, had lost to a great extent its sea-going ''War of 1812,'' the great sea-power of the British in the end sea-power, notwithstanding the first year of the war of 1812, naval officer and the man-of-war''s man of the time than a large the end of the war 39, ships of the line; the British began the A fleet of ships of the line as long as it could keep the sea, in; and command of the sea; the fleet''s position in War; id = 15076 author = Corbett, Julian Stafford title = Some Principles of Maritime Strategy date = keywords = Admiral; Brest; Channel; Clausewitz; France; Japanese; Napoleon; Nelson; Sir; Strategy; War; british; enemy; fleet; french; power; spanish summary = working control of the sea by aggressive action against the enemy''s fleets. use of offensive operations nor the idea of overthrowing our enemy so far method of making the enemy''s armed force the main strategical objective, immediate object were to bring the enemy''s main fleets to action or to as, "seeking out the enemy''s fleet," blockade, attack and defence of trade, French wars, the enemy''s lines of operation do not traverse our home naval means is to obtain a decision by battle against the enemy''s fleet. enemy''s armed fleets in order to destroy his power of naval resistance as decision is all we can ask of the Fortune of War. Enough has now been said to show that "seeking out the enemy''s fleet" is ulterior object was to force his fleet to sea. enemy''s army the primary objective and not his fleet in cases of invasion. id = 16695 author = Corbett, Julian Stafford title = Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. date = keywords = Additional; Admiral; Admiralty; Book; Captain; Duke; Dutch; English; Fighting; Howe; Instructions; Lord; Nelson; Penn; Rodney; Signal; Sir; War; enemy; fleet; footnote; line; order; ship summary = And if the fleet of the enemy shall come on in one body in line enemy, that all his ships shall bear a flag in their mizen-tops, and No man shall board his enemy''s ship without order, because the ''No man shall board any enemy''s ship but by order from a principal No man shall board any enemy''s ship, especially such as command 4. No man shall board any enemy''s ships without special order, but less as the order of the enemy''s fleet or ships should require, signal for a squadron breaking the enemy''s line, but only in order to enemy''s line of battle, and for all the other ships to follow her in 9. For the leading ship to cut through the enemy''s line of battle. his squadron (in sailing order) becomes the leading ship of the line, number of the ship to be first attacked in the enemy''s line. id = 29685 author = Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William) title = Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy date = keywords = Allied; England; FIG; Great; H.M.S.; M.L.; Naval; North; Sea; United; War; british; day; german; illustration; officer; ship; submarine; surface; water summary = boats to old-time sailing-ships, and from fishing craft to liners. command ships of specific types at sea and in action, and the men to 5.--Diagram illustrating method of attack by C.M.B. on surface ship (or submarine on surface). submarine the whole line can be exploded at will from the surface ship employed to screen surface ships from submarine attack. rush to the life-boats when the ship was attacked by a submarine. patrols, "Q" boats and a number of special duty ships. performed by either officers or men of sea-going ships. out in the open sea, where the danger of a submarine attack was much up from the sea emanated from a surface ship or a submarine. Minutes passed; but little ships cannot rest quietly on the open sea. into the North Sea. The danger of attack from hostile submarines was great, and the gunners id = 27244 author = Edelsheim, Franz, Freiherr von title = Operations Upon the Sea: A Study date = keywords = England; fleet; german; operation; transport; troop summary = mind the land operations in expeditions over-sea. intercourse it is possible to transport our large troop forces in difficulty arises in the fact that all sea and land fighting forces that with a reverse at sea the landing operations could not be carried After successful landings it may be necessary to place the transport fleet and its escort in command of the chief of the land troops. loading transports and landing maneuvers for the heavy artillery and land, a complete plan is necessary for operations over the sea which will be to ship as many troops as the transports will carry. of the transport fleet is possible if the command of the sea is operations of the landed troops must be conducted wholly as a war on strength of the sea and land fighting forces of the two opponents, and because of the small forces necessary to transport over the sea to id = 17547 author = Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) title = The Navy as a Fighting Machine date = keywords = Britain; Department; Europe; General; Germany; Great; Japan; Navy; States; United; War; british; fleet; force; naval; power; |Value summary = of our naval ships produced little material effect, the skill, the sea, but the power of a navy composed of ships able to fight, manned by men trained to fight, under the command of captains skilled If one looks at a fleet of war-ships on the sea, he will be impressed in war, we always wish to exert a great force at a definite point In a country like the United States, or any other great nation, the our becoming involved in a war with a great naval nation is too The real reason for Great Britain''s having a powerful navy applies afford for operating fleets and ships, there has been a great advance military war game (_Kriegspiel_) to naval forces; playing numberless naval strategy in planning additions to our fleet for war, is to If a naval base were lacking to the more powerful fleet, as was id = 51748 author = Fulton, Robert title = Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions date = keywords = England; Torpedo; Torpedoes; boat; british; ship summary = minutes past four the boats rowed towards the brig, and the Torpedoes ship, will pull the Torpedo out of the boat, and at the same instant gun ship, cannot be used to better advantage in a Torpedo attack or each Torpedo boat would not be more than three minutes within the line of that such a force of Torpedo boats and men would destroy the twenty ships to shew that ships of war cannot carry a sufficient number of boats Purchase a strong ship; make six Torpedoes; build two good row-boats, little chance of resisting fifty Torpedo boats of twelve men each, equal advantage which Torpedoes give to an attack with boats, it is of little ships of war retreat before Torpedo boats, that moment the power of the equal to the number in the ships, and estimated five thousand boats to be Torpedo boats, and such ships should be blown up, the inhumanity must be id = 15749 author = Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) title = The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future date = keywords = Atlantic; Britain; Caribbean; Cuba; Europe; Great; Gulf; Islands; Isthmus; Jamaica; Pacific; Sea; States; United; West; american; british; european summary = the great maritime powers, to control the Central American canal. possess great natural advantages for the control of that sea, but have the sea-going navy, when the strategic conditions of a war cause supposed case or in war with a European state, implies a great have come now into contact--Great Britain and the United States--are Great Britain to control the long route from Gibraltar to the Red Sea Great Britain and the United States, and for the benefit of the world, nations, which is maintained now by the great states of Europe. the power of the chief nations of the world, were really in a state of present in the growth of the United States to be a great Pacific action for the great European states is now the world, and it is analogue in Great Britain or the United States, the chief military The United States, like Great Britain, depends wholly upon voluntary id = 28178 author = Naval War College (U.S.) title = Sound Military Decision date = keywords = Decision; Estimate; Form; Fundamental; Military; Principle; action; chapter; commander; objective; plan; problem; section summary = courses of action and the detailed operations pertaining thereto (page commander''s force and, finally, into a detailed plan, as the solution effect desired may be indicated by the higher command (page 44), or indicated in plans and orders of the higher command (page 48). indication of the commander''s general objective for his entire force, Each course of action is thus a plan of military operations for the will naturally indicate the commander''s general objective (page 49) thus adopts this course of action as a general plan of operations, or In a basic problem, the commander is assigned his objective by higher commander''s retained courses of action with those of the enemy which commander''s courses of action, against that in each of the enemy''s. reached at this point becomes the commander''s general plan of action Decision is the basis for the commander''s plan of action for his id = 44990 author = Sleeman, Charles William title = Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare date = keywords = Captain; EXPERIMENT; England; Fig; Fulton; Harvey; Lay; Mr.; PLATE; Siemens; Thornycroft; Voltaic; Whitehead; boat; cable; ditto; english; fire; french; illustration; russian; torpedo; turkish; vessel; wire summary = in the form and construction of steam torpedo boats, their engines, For large ground mines, the best form of torpedo case seems to be that electrical submarine mines, in the place of the platinum wire fuze, submarine mines, the wires along which the electric current flows have, _Special Cables._--In firing electrical submarine mines by means of _Use of Circuit Closers._--Electrical submarine mines may by means of closing of the electric circuit in connection with submarine mines, is for use by placing torpedo boats in the said tubes, and may be kept torpedo boat from an ironclad or other large ship is shown at Fig. 130. electric cables of the said torpedo boats, each cable being connected When it is desired to sink the torpedo boat an electric current is sent of the torpedo boat are effected are connected to the cable and such vessels that a torpedo boat attack will generally be used and id = 37328 author = Stables, Gordon title = Medical Life in the Navy date = keywords = CHAPTER; London; day; good; half; like; little; look; man; officer; service; ship; sir; time; way summary = "Yes, sir," said she, looking pleasedly at it with one eye (so have I orders were, gasped a little, called for a glass of water,--not beer, carrying a large red flag, and with an old grey-haired officer sitting wards, men''s wards, officers'' wards; and thus we spent the time till a of that time my appointment to a sea-going ship came. the water alongside, the boat darts away from the ship like an arrow namely, a little round-faced, dimple-cheeked, good-natured fellow, who "And precious little to dine upon," said the officer on his right. Leaving the men for a short time with the boat, we made our way to the only an assistant-surgeon, where a young medical officer feels all the on the quarter-deck, turn out good service-officers. joined the service; and, poor little man! navy would be a very good service for the medical officer. id = 33445 author = Thursfield, James R. (James Richard) title = Naval Warfare date = keywords = Admiral; England; Nelson; Norris; Torrington; Tourville; british; fleet; force; french; naval; power; sea; state summary = warfare will turn upon the command of the sea; a "Fleet in Being" will before their sea communications are severed by the defending naval force as war is essentially the conflict of armed force, the primary object of But sea power, that is, the advantage which a nation at war naval force is engaged each belligerent seeks to secure the command of the main fleets of the enemy into ports which are inaccessible to naval the enemy''s available naval forces--as was practically the case after way to attain those objects was to destroy the naval forces of the enemy of naval warfare, the command of the sea. the command of the sea, and having no sufficient naval force wherewithal had no command of any sea because we were not at war with any naval "command of the sea," "control of maritime communications," "the fleet