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Of military science he had read sufficient to take a technical interest in the details of battles and campaigns, and he was perhaps one of the first landsmen of this age to understand the 'influence of sea-power. His attention had been called to this at a very early period in his career by the utter collapse of Mehemet Ali in Syria; and reasoning on that, he had learned that 'sea-power, or, as he preferred to call it, 'maritime-power, controlled and directed affairs with which, at first sight, it seemed to have absolutely nothing to do.
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