Strategic Command or Control—largely the power of carrying out considerable over-sea expeditions at will. Seeking the enemy’s fleet. Temporary command in smaller operations.
Special Historical Articles
As for the army officer, so the Britannica has for the naval officer many separate articles on wars, campaigns, battles, generals, commanders. The following list of articles will serve as a guide to a course of reading constituting a history of naval warfare, furnishing the concrete separate facts on which are based the articles already described.
Ancient History.
Greece: articles Salamis, Themistocles, Xerxes I, Peloponnesian War, Pericles.
Rome: articles Punic Wars, Carthage, Pompey, Actium.
Medieval History.
Crusades; Swold; Dover, Battle of; Sluys, Battle of; Espagnols sur Mer (and article Edward III), Chioggia (and articles Venice and Genoa).
16th Century.
Lepanto (and article Don John of Austria).