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" The noiseless, steady, exhausting pressure with which sea power acts, cutting off the resources of the enemy while maintaining its own, supporting war in scenes where it does not appear itself, or appears only in the background, and striking open blows... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 105
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1890 - 710 pages
...with the exception of the American Revolutionary struggle. The noiseless, steady, exhausting pressure with which sea power acts, cutting off the resources...maintaining its own, supporting war in scenes where it docs not appear itself, or appears only in the background, and striking open blows at rare intervals,...
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, Volume 1

Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1890 - 644 pages
...cutting off the resources of the enemy while maintaining its own, supporting war in scenes where it docs not appear itself, or appears only in the background,...open blows at rare intervals, though lost to most, is emphasized to the careful reader by the events of this war and of the halfcentury that followed. The...
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The British Fleet: The Growth, Achievements and Duties of the Navy of the Empire

Charles Napier Robinson - 1894 - 632 pages
...Corsairs of France" (CB Norman) ; and "Studies in Naval History" (Professor JK Laughton, RN). porting war in scenes where it does not appear itself, or...open blows at rare intervals, though lost to most, is emphasized to the careful reader by the events of this war, and of the half century that followed....
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The Living Age, Volume 293

1917 - 884 pages
...direct relation to our blockade of the German coasts. Admiral Mahan, writing of the War of 1702-' 14, said that ' 'the noiseless, steady, exhausting power...open blows at rare intervals, though lost to most, is emphasized to the careful reader by the events of this war and of the halfcontury that followed." It...
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The Conflict of Colour: The Threatened Upheaval Throughout the World

Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale - 1910 - 390 pages
...which England was gradually rising. (a) "The noiseless, steady, exhausting pressure with which seapower acts, cutting off the resources of the enemy while...careful reader by the events of this war and of the half-century that followed. The overwhelming sea-power of England was the determining factor in European...
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The Conflict of Colour: Being a Detailed Examination of Racial Problems ...

Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale - 1910 - 360 pages
...which England was gradually rising. (a) "The noiseless, steady, exhausting pressure with which seapower acts, cutting off the resources of the enemy while...careful reader by the events of this war and of the half-century that followed. The overwhelming sea-power of England was the determining factor in European...
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The Candid: Quarterly Review of Public ..., Volume 4, Issues 7-8; Volumes 7-8

Thomas Gibson Bowles - 1915 - 528 pages
...Sea Power that produced the deciding material effects. " The noiseless, steady, exhausting " pressure with which sea power acts, cutting off the " resources of the enemy while maintaining its own, sup" porting war in scenes where it does not appear itself, or " appears only in the background, and...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 227

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1917 - 640 pages
...relation to our blockade of the German coasts. Admiral Mahan, writing of the War of 1702-14, said that not appear itself, or appears only in the background,...careful reader by the events of this war and of the half-century that followed.' It is this pressure which we have sought to impose on the Central Powers...
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Harvard Economic Studies

1926 - 524 pages
...The Navy proceeded to give a remarkable demonstration of the noiseless, steady, exhausting pressure with which sea power acts, cutting off the resources...appears only in the background, and striking open blows only at rare intervals.1 Frigates and sloops by the hundred were necessary for the exercise of this...
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The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict: From military assistance to ...

1977 - 1230 pages
...pressure of the Royal Navy as it imposed what Mahan called the noiseless, steady, exhausting pressure with which sea power acts, cutting off the resources...while maintaining its own, supporting war in scenes it does not appear itself or appears only in the background, and striking open blows only at rare intervals....
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