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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Francis Guilmartin |
| ISBN: | 1591143470 9781591143475 |
| OCLC Number: | 54099996 |
| Notes: | Rev. ed. of: Gunpowder and galleys. 1974 |
| Description: | 352 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Jiddah, 1517 -- The Mahanians' fallacy -- Prevesa, 1538 -- The Mediterranean system of warfare at sea: geographic origins and operational characteristics -- William Towerson's fight off the Guinea coast, 1557 -- The Mediterranean system of naval warfare: physical, economic and social limitations -- Djerba, 1560 -- The weapons of sixteenth-century warfare at sea -- Malta, 1565 -- The galley -- Lepanto, 1571 -- The decline of the Mediterranean system of warfare at sea: technological change, social and economic causes and effects -- Appendix 1. The development and tactical employment of individual firearms in the sixteenth century -- Appendix 2. The external and internal ballistics of sixteenth-century cannon -- Appendix 3. The design and construction of bronze cannon in the sixteenth century -- Appendix 4. Computation of the speed of sixteenth-century galleys under oars -- Appendix 5. The oficiales, soldiers and oarsmen carried aboard sixteenth-century Spanish galleys -- Appendix 6. The classification and arrangement of ordnance on sixteenth-century galleys. |
| Other Titles: | Gunpowder and galleys |
| Responsibility: | John Francis Guilmartin, Jr. |
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