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A few years later the Dutch will be found claiming the same privilege of neutrality toward France while furnishing a large contingent to the Austrian army acting against her. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française.
Incidentally, I took up the study of land warfare, using Jomini and Hamley. For naval history the first book upon which I chanced the word is exact was just what I needed at that stage. It was a history of the French navy, by a Lieutenant Lapeyrouse-Bonfils, published about 1845.
Clerk: Naval Tactics. Jurien de la Gravière: Guerres Maritimes. Mahon: History of England. Mahon: History of England. For these, see Troude: Batailles Navales. See Plate VIII. Troude: Batailles Navales de la France. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils. Mahon: History of England. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Mahon: History of England. Martin: History of France. Martin: History of France.
In this respect the navy is essentially a light corps; it keeps open the communications between its own ports, it obstructs those of the enemy; but it sweeps the sea for the service of the land, it controls the desert that man may live and thrive on the habitable globe. When the troops were landed, the guns were mounted. Ramatuelle: Tactique Navale. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine.
This was a measure which, as they were now masters of the sea, could scarcely fail of success; and it would prove a blow so fatal to that nation, that she could not recover it during the whole course of the war." The French account of Lapeyrouse-Bonfils is essentially the same.
It was not a case of the new displacing the old, but of the military element in a military organization asserting its necessary and inevitable control over all other functions. Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar. et Col. 1885. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Martin: History of France. Martin: History of France.
Lapeyrouse-Bonfils. Annual Reg., vol. xxvii. p. 10. Shortly before the conclusion of the Peace of Breda, Louis XIV. made his first step toward seizing parts of the Spanish Netherlands and Franche Comté. At the same time that his armies moved forward, he sent out a State paper setting forth his claims upon the territories in question.
Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar. et Col. July, 1885. Jurien de la Gravière: Guerres Maritimes. Mémoires. See Map of Mediterranean, p. 15. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française. This movement, according to Clerk, was not made by the whole of a French line together, but in a way much more scientific and military.
La Serre: Essais Hist. et Crit. sur la Marine Française. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française. Jurien de la Gravière: Guerres Maritimes. Since the above was written, the secretary of the navy, in his report for 1889, has recommended a fleet which would make such a blockade as here suggested very hazardous.
Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Martin: History of France. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. The Peace of Utrecht was soon followed by the deaths of the rulers of the two countries which had played the foremost part in the War of the Spanish Succession. Queen Anne died August 1, 1714; Louis XIV. on the 1st of September, 1715.
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