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Often appears with: naval warfare and sea power · tribute and fleets · trade, markets, and merchants · themistocles · rival motives in war · mediterranean trade · empire building · empire and the rule of provinces · cromwell and dutch war · conquest, plunder, and captives · colonial trade smallness
Usually: argument (1) · speech or oration (1) · ambition and its cost (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
Athens argues that its ships, Themistocles, and uncompromising patriotism secured the Hellenic fleet’s success, and that keeping an empire was driven by fear, later by honor and interest.
invader himself. Defeated at sea, he considered his power to be no longer what it had been, and retired as speedily as possible with the greater part of his army. “Such, then, was the result of the matter, and it was clearly proved that it was on the fleet of Hellas that her cause depended. Well, to this result we contributed three very useful elements, viz., the largest number of ships, the ablest commander, and th…
Smith rejects claims that Navigation Act alone created Britain’s naval power, noting colonies were small when the act was formed and that Britain’s earlier trade was chiefly European and Mediterranean.
trade, that trade could not possibly be carried on without withdrawing some part of that capital from other branches of trade, nor consequently without some decay of those other branches. England, it must be observed, was a great trading country, her mercantile capital was very great, and likely to become still greater and greater every day, not only before the act of navigation had established the monopoly of the c…