The Trafalgar victory did not indeed reduce France to terms, and it thus illustrates the limitations of naval power against an enemy not primarily dependent upon the sea.
While she maintained large fleets until after the Napoleonic Wars, she was never again truly formidable as a naval power.
But America's quarrel was after all not with France, who needed American trade, but with England, a commercial rival, who could back her restrictions by naval power.
Their possessions must be protected and supplied by a naval power.
If on the other hand England were at war with a naval Power of the first rank, she might have to employ the whole of her naval resources in securing the free transit of her maritime commerce.
Evils of this sort can only take place on very rare contingency; but the ruin of the public liberty can hardly fail to be a consequence of the establishment of a naval power.
The select committee in their report (for they had reported specially as well as by bill) have said, with oracular confidence, that this country is inevitably destined to become a naval power.
But, while it is contended by some that it will not be in the power of the nation to establish an effective naval force, there are others who are opposed to it, lest we become too great a naval power.
It is manifest that such colonies may be a great element of strength in any nation, and especially in one which chiefly depends for security on naval power.
It will be seen that the map illustrates another group of facts which we must consider before we can fully grasp the relation of this geographical distribution of the Empire to naval power in an age of steam.
It is commonly said that an island is peculiarly fitted to be the seat of a naval power, and no doubt freedom from the perpetual risk of invasion by land is a material advantage.
A naval power is not limited in its influence, as the strongest of merely military powers must needs be.
The battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea marks the culmination of King Edward's naval power.
The Vaterland being a merchant ship and not fully representing naval power, perhaps it might be better to take, say, the Pennsylvania.
While, however, the primary use of naval power seems to be to prevent blockade, a navy, like any other weapon, may be put to any other uses which circumstances indicate.
As a nursery of seamen, and a source of naval power, it has been, and is an object of serious importance, and perhaps indispensably necessary to the accomplishment and the preservation of our independence.
Evils of the fisheries; they promote luxury, and injure morals; are useful as a source of naval power.
Athens, as a naval power, was mistress of most of the islands and maritime cities, which, as tributary confederates, rendered for the most part a forced obedience.
On the other hand, Sparta as yet had no finance; and only began to feel the want of it as she began to acquire a naval power, and entered upon undertakings more vast than mere incursions.
From the possession of these colonies, and from the necessity of protecting the trader from pirates, Corinth grew to be a naval power; she invented triremes, and at the early date of 664 gave battle to the Corcyraeans at sea.
First formation of a naval power; and unsuccessful attempt to unite by a canal the Mediterranean with the Red sea.
But, he asked if the loss we sustained for the want of a naval power could be estimated?
Whatever gentlemen may now think or determine on, it was probable we should at some time become a naval power; and even with the most distant prospect of that, it would show economy to prepare for it.
The ships from our Navy which will appear in the great naval parade next April in the harbor of New York will be a convincing demonstration to the world that the United States is again a naval power.
But even if this were not the case, they would at once be closed against us in the event of war with a naval power so much stronger than our own as to enable it to blockade the ports at either end of these routes.
I am at a loss to conceive how this protection can be afforded to California and Oregon against such a naval power by any other means.
The question of military strength was really that of naval power.
But the maintenance of home facilities for building ships was as essential to the development of naval power as was the fostering of a class of seamen.
Rome had suddenly become a naval power, and held in her hand the means of energetically terminating a war which threatened to be endlessly prolonged and to involve the commerce of Italy in ruin.
Lastly, Eumenes obtained the royal forests and the elephants delivered up by Antiochus, but not the ships of war, which were burnt: the Romans tolerated no naval power by the side of their own.
Naval Power of Carthage But the empire of Libya was only half of the power of Carthage; its maritime and colonial dominion had acquired, during the same period, a not less powerful development.
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