TY  - BOOK
AU  - BREEMER Jan S
TI  - The burden of Trafalgar: decisive battle and naval strategic expectations on the eve of the First World War
SN  -   (pbk.)
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Newport R.I.
PB  - United States Naval War College
KW  - BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
KW  - FIRST WORLD WAR
KW  - NAVAL OPERATIONS
KW  - STRATEGY
N2  - Sets out to establish why the Battle of Trafalgar had so much effect on naval strategy in the following hundred years. In particular considers the effect of the last great decisive battle under sail on strategy using very different technolgies and with different objectives. In Nelson's day one tried to capture the opponents ships, by the first world war the objective was to destroy them
ER  -