The First Fleets
Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775

Benjamin C. Schaffer (Author)

9780817322342

Hardback, published 15 May 2025

232 pages, 10 b&w figures - 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution.