| Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - 1903 - 516 sidor
...been allowed to go to the coast of Spain again there would have been no Armada. Bacon says, " This much is certain, that he that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much or as little as he will." As Ealeigh quaintly expresses it, " To entertain those that shall assail... | |
| 1905 - 958 sidor
...Cic. Ep. ad AU. x. 8. this is when princes or states have risked their whole fortune upon the battles. But thus much is certain, that he that commands the...much and as little of the war as he will ; whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits. Surely at this day with... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 sidor
...final 10 to the war0; but this is when princes or states have set up their rest0 upon the battles. But thus much is certain, that he that commands the...and may take as much and as little of the war as he will0; whereas those that be strongest by land 15 are many times, nevertheless, in great straits. Surely,... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 264 sidor
...Seventeenth Century, vol. iii. p. 68. the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates (first printed in 1612), "that he that commands the sea is at great liberty...take as much and as little of the war as he will." Cromwell, though not the creator of our navy, was its strongest inspiration until Nelson, and no feature... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 258 sidor
...saying in the famous essay on 4s^ the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates (first printed in 1612), "that he that commands the sea is at great liberty...take as much and as little of the war as he will." Cromwell, though not the creator of our navy, was its strongest inspiration until Nelson, and no feature... | |
| Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1924 - 786 sidor
...Gold Medal Essay, Air Force, 1926. The Council have selected the following as the subject : " But this much is certain, that he that commands the sea is...much and as little of the war as he will, whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits." — Bacon's Essays.... | |
| Edward Ingram - 1984 - 268 sidor
...1800, Dundas, p. 280. V THE FAILURE OF BRITISH SEA POWER IN THE WAR OF THE SECOND COALITION, 1798-1801 He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and...take as much and as little of the war as he will. Francis Bacon, Essays, xxix When the British navy's battle fleet put to sea in the spring of 1982 for... | |
| B. H. Liddell Hart - 2009 - 458 sidor
...called the ship of the desert. Lawrence's thought travelled back to Francis Bacon's dictum, "He who commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much or as little of the war as he will." His own war was more Elizabethan than Fochian — and the Arabs... | |
| John Arquilla - 1992 - 190 sidor
...Augusta Scon, ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908), pp. 132146. Bacon contends that "this much is certain, that he that commands the sea is...much and as little of the war as he will . Whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits" (p. 144). 9. See Philip... | |
| David Jablonsky - 1994 - 340 sidor
...continent in such a conflict.197 Equally influential was Corbett's interpretation of Francis Bacon's maxim: "He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much or as little of the war as he will."195 For Corbett, this meant the selection of a theater of operations... | |
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