The Waikato River Gunboats: New Zealand's First Navy
Author : Grant Middlemiss
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Grant Middlemiss
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Grant Middlemiss
Publisher :
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Gunboats
ISBN : 9780473278007
Author : Roger Branfill-Cook
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1848323808
A comprehensive, fully illustrated encyclopedia of river gunboats from the early 19th century to the present day. The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honorable East India Company’s gunboat Diana went into action on the Irrawaddy in Burma. In the 150 years that followed, river gunboats played a significant part in over forty campaigns and individual actions around the world. This comprehensive reference book covers the development of riverboat warfare from the early 19th century to current riverine combat vessels in service today. River gunboats proved to be the decisive factor in a wide range of conflicts across the world—from the New Zealand Wars to the American Civil War, and from both World Wars to the conflicts in Indochina and Vietnam. This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia describes the river gunboats that saw action, plus those converted river steamers which took part in combat. This volume also includes maps of the river systems where they operated, together with narratives of the principal actions involving river gunboats.
Author : R. J. McDougall
Publisher : GP Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
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Author : Herbert Baillie
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 1919
Category : New Zealand
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Author : Daniel Owen Spence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0857726196
The British Empire, the largest empire in history, was fundamentally a maritime one. Britain s imperial power was inextricably tied to the strength of the Royal Navy the ability to protect and extend Britain s political and economic interests overseas, and to provide the vital bonds that connected the metropole with the colonies. This book will examine the intrinsic relationship between the Royal Navy and the empire, by examining not only the navy s expansionist role on land and sea, but also the ideological and cultural influence it exerted for both the coloniser and colonised. The navy s voyages of discovery created new scientific knowledge and inspired art, literature and film. Using the model of the Royal Navy, colonies began to develop their own navies, many of which supported the Royal Navy in the major conflicts of the twentieth century. Daniel Owen Spence here provides a history of the navy s role in empire from the earliest days of colonisation to the present-day Commonwealth. In doing so, he shows how the relationship between the navy and the empire played a part in shaping the globalised society we inhabit today."
Author : James Cowan
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Page : 486 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
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Copy in Mahi Māreikura on loan from the whanau of Maharaia Winiata. Bookmark (postcard in envelope) in volume 1 at page 105.
Author : Ian C. McGibbon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
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"This book is the most comprehensive guide yet to New Zealand's rich and varied military history. It is supplemented with 150 photographs and more than forty maps, as well as lists of important office-holders. It is a must for students, specialists, and anyone interested in New Zealand's military history and the effect of war on its society."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John O'Connell Ross
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1967
Category : New Zealand
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History of Auckland Naval Base during the New Zealand Wars and, more briefly, to the present day.
Author : Sydney David Waters
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 1956
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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