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Title: Heresies of sea power
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865-1916
Subjects: Sea-power Naval history War
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mpensatingfactors are that invading troops can be conveyed acrossinfinitely more surely and quickly than in the days ofsail,1 also the torpedo craft of the invader have aprospect of dealing with the defending fleet on itsreturn far greater potentially than any vessels had inthe old days. Hence the tendency to balance things and to saythat when the new and balancing conditions are sub-tracted from both sides, the resultant is much what theresultant was in the days of sailing ships. Napoleonsattempted invasion of England is then tak en; itsfailure demonstrated, and the deduction drawn thatinvasion (other than a raid) is impossible so long as 1 Napoleons row-boats in the beginning of the nineteenth centurycould hardly have made an average of three miles an hour at the best.Twelve knots is a low average for a modern transport fleet bent ongetting across quickly. THE INVASION OF ENGLAND 217 a British fleet holds command of the sea. To whichthose who may loosely be termed the military party
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respond that all this may be true and obvious, butNapoleons was not a surprise invasion. 218 HERESIES OF SEA POWER The details of Napoleons attempt are very wellknown. In bare fact they are usually described asfollows:— On the northern shores of France an army wasopenly massed and flat-bottomed boats for its transportcollected at all available ports, towards the end of thefirst war. In the second war more boats were collected.At a pre-arranged time the three fleets blockaded atBrest, Rochefort, and Toulon were to break out andrendezvous at Martinique, return en masse and holdthe Channel while the troops crossed in the flat-bottomed boats. The plan so far as it existed failed because for onething only the Rochefort squadron arrived to time.The Toulon fleet under Villeneuve arrived after longdelay, to find the Rochefort ships already returned toFrance, while the Brest fleet never got out at all.Nelson followed the Toulon fleet, but he was certainlynot decoyed away by it, since the sol

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