Problems of an Amphibious Power: Britain Against France, 1793-1815
Piers Mackesy
In: Naval History 1680-1850
Edited By Richard Harding
Routledge, 2006

Amphibious warfare has ever been difficult and complex and although it has a Jong history of many attempts, it was never successful until World War II. What is politically and strategically desirable is not necessarily physically and technically feasible. Witness the problems in Napoleonic times.

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