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We Came into Being by the Sea
History is Full of Sea Power
    Wherever There is Water
      No Grand Scheme
        As Every Nation with a Sea Shore
          Let Slip the Dogs of War
            All the Waters
              The Dispiriting and Painful Struggle
                A Certain Resourcefulness
                  The Challenges That Lay Ahead


                    		  

                    We Came into Being by the Sea

                    " ... the most important lesson of them all is this - that as an empire we came into being by the sea, and that we cannot exist without the sea."

                    Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty - 1919




                    Date Modified: 2008-2-26

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