index. $39.95. ISBN:0670034487. While the career of Lord Nelson necessarily takes up much of Nelson's Battles, they real value of this book is that it is primarily about "The triumph of British sea ...

Some of history's most important and decisive battles have taken place at sea. Major engagements, including the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Midway, are well known.

(Central News) Amsterdam, Friday: The Maasbode, commenting on the North Sea naval battle, expresses the view that it must be regarded as a British success, seeing that it is admitted on Germany's ...

No British ships ... across the North Sea on 16 December to bombard Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby, killing 137 people and injuring 592, a consequence of a battle 8,000 miles away.

The South Sea Company was a financial and trading organisation mainly dealing with Spanish America. It received trading rights to the South Seas in return for financing the British government's debt.

Two British shipwrecks dating from World War II have "vanished" from the floor of the Java Sea, and several others have been partially removed, in raids blamed on illegal scrap metal salvage ...

How much oil - and how much profit - remain beneath the waters that buffet the British Isles ... and the Jackdaw gas development in the North Sea were approved unlawfully. However, the lawyers ...