Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Years War: The Sails of Victory

摘要

The maxim that an army marches on its stomach was never truer than during the Seven Years War, which Fred Anderson famously dubbed as the first world war. Soldiers and sailors required provisions to fight, and wooden sailing vessels transported these necessities thousands of miles to far flung regions of the globe. David Syrett, the late scholar who devoted forty years to studying eighteenth-century naval history, argues in his final book that the British government successfully administered this global conflict's logistics and that is why Britannia emerged victorious.