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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. |
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