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Britannia rued the waves

The British won many sea battles in the American War of Independence but were defeated by America’s countless rivers, lakes and creeks, according to Sam Willis’s ‘liquid history’

  • The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American War of Independence

    Sam Willis

    Atlantic, pp. 608

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