Sailing to War: The Age of the Ship of the Line

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For nearly three centuries, naval warfare in the Western world was dominated by capital sailing ships. From the 17th century onward, they usually fought in a single long line, the line of battle, which allowed them to fire thunderous broadsides at the enemy fleet. Ships chosen for this demanding task, only the very best, were called ships of the line. In this video, we look at how modern historiography explains the evolution of the unstable, sluggish sailing ships of the Middle Ages to the massive, cannon-laden and maneuverable ships of the line that dominated the seas in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Fiction related to the Early modern period:
Alexandre Dumas,The Three Musketeers https://amzn.to/2CJVAuu
Alexandre Dumas, 20 Years After https://amzn.to/32g82Lv
Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne https://amzn.to/2EnIOCB
Markus Heitz, The Dark Lands https://amzn.to/3ntZgEu

Military Si-Fi recommendations:
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (Series of 22 books on the Napoleonic Wars), https://amzn.to/3RZyty0
Dan Abnett, The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) https://amzn.to/3vdGxkZ
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Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company Series Book 1) https://amzn.to/3PVgyGV

Historiography:
Neville Morley, Writing Ancient History 1999. https://amzn.to/3NCyoNl
Albeit focused on ancient history, it's a brilliant book for anybody who is interested in what history actually is. Is it a story? How does it work in practise? Can writing history be objective? Is it "scientific"? What makes it a proper discipline at university?

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