HTST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cape Trafalgar, Bertrand Russell, Spanish Navy
7 Apr 2015
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Tell me, comrades in eternal silence, would you have besieged the enlistment offices with the same enthusiasm . Had you known that 50 years later those men in gray knit caps or steel helmets you were ordered to kill would no longer be enemies . The formation of the fiscal military state: great britain in the 18th. Century: the state made war and war made the state. Treasury bill // bank of england (1694: 1960 battle of beachy head, the problem: couldn"t get money together fast enough. 8% return: the power of the navy made britain the dominant world power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . Instant and furious warfare: shock and awe . New strategies: had more money than anyone else, bring together troops, army and could react faster than anyone else. Trafalgar (21 october 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the british royal navy against the combined fleets of the.
