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"The Painful Task of Thinking Belongs To Me:" Rethinking Royal Navy Signal Reform during the American War of Independence
… the context and causes of signal reform in the British Royal Navy during the American War of Independence. It argues that changes in the ethos of the officer corps before and during the American War of Independence led to a complex period of signal reform. The original system was tied to the …
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An Evaluation of British Royal Naval Arctic Exploration Techniques: 1818-1876
… of travel and survival in cold regions. The Royal Navy, in a burst of arctic exploration between the years 1818-18?6, achieved great success too in mapping over one-half of the North American and Canadian Arctic, where the main effort of exploration was centred, and in the discovery of three …