the U.S. Naval War College, Alfred Thayer Mahan demonstrates through historical examples that the rise and fall of sea power and the wealth of nations have always been linked with commercial and military command of the sea. Mahan describes successful naval strategies employed in the past--from Greek and Roman times through the Napoleonic Wars--with an intense focus on England's rise as a sea power in the eighteenth century. This book provides not only an overview of naval tactics but also a lucid exposition of geographic, economic, and social factors governing the maintenance of sea power.

of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909. This is a series of photographs documenting the event in Albany - the ships, the street parade and the banquet (with background music).The cruise undertaken by those 16 naval vessels so long ago was, and still is, the largest circumnavigation of the globe by sea. The benefits to Australia from the visit of the original White Fleet are still being felt today and in many ways it was the ca