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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Plates
Maps
Preface
Chronology
Glossary
Chapter 1 A Republic at Bay
Chapter 2 Cromwell’s Navy
Chapter 3 Defeating the Royalists: 1: Blake versus Rupert
Chapter 4 Defeating the Royalists: 2: Scillies, Channel Islands and Barbadoes
Chapter 5 The Dutch War 1: Learning the Lessons
Chapter 6 The Dutch War 2: Winning the War
Chapter 7 War with Spain
Chapter 8 Restoration
Notes
Bibliography
Index