Naval wars in the Baltic during the sailing-ship epoch, 1522-1850

Robarts - University Of Toronto, R. C. (Roger Charles) Anderson

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NAVAL IN THE BALTIC.WARSt_ NAVAL WAES IN THE BALTIC DURING THE SAILING-SHIP EPOCH 1 522 1 850 BY E. C. ANDERSON Sub-Lieutenant M.A. F.E.G.S.R.N.V.R., (Cantab.), LONDON C. GILBERT-WOOD &5 3 ARUNDEL STEEET STRAND W.C. 1910V 4 As 1105722PREFACE. In the I have to an account oftriedfollowing pages give the series of in the Balticnaval wars which tooklong place the of theseThe featureduring sailing-ship epoch. principal wars was their which wereand the inexclusiveness, theyway for the most the fleets of thedecided withoutpart involving Western Powers. It is true that in the seventeenth century thethe Dutch some in Baltic and thataffairs,played part inclusion of the Baltic Powers in the Napoleonic struggle them into contact with but in anaturally brought England; of naval warfare in the Baltic can bethegeneral way. history looked on as a can best be as such.distinct and treatedsection, I have the 1563dealt with the in detail fromsubject year for theto the end of the wars in and1815, have,Napoleonic sake of sketched in outline the course of eventscompleteness, between 1522 and 1563 and between 1815 and 1850. Through- out I have endeavoured to as much detailed informationgive as but have refrained from discussionpossible, purposely any of the reasons or the various This islessons of operations. where treatment of the differs from that of Vice-my subject " Admiral Kirchoff in his Seemacht in der Ostsee." He deals with the of the more or less from thegreater part period point of view Mahan in his works onadopted by Captain general naval while I have tried to follow more theinhistory, footsteps of and factsJames, without comment.give Most of the information contained in this book has been pub- beforelished in one form or another, but its collation and combination has involved a considerable amount of andwork, has necessitated the of a number of authorities instudy large at least six different A list of the morelanguages. important works which I have used will be found at the end of the book. A certain amount of frominformation comes, however, unpub- lished sources in the and SwedishDanish, andDutch, archives, here I must thanks to Mr. Van chief ofexpress my E/iemsdyk, the Dutch archives, and to his Mr. for theirassistant, Ross, in the somewhat accounts of Dutchmeagrehelp supplementing in the Baltic to be found in the standardoperations histories, and also to Mr. of the Provincial archives atTunberg. Upsala, for with the Swedish records.help I have found some with to the ofdifficulty regard spelling Inames. have names of andproper spelt places peoplevi PREFACE. in a as are in the countries to whichgeneral way, they spelt but in the case of a few towns I havethey belong; large it best to retain the Theordinary English spelling.thought of names has been difficult for several reasons.spelling ship in the earlier there wereFirst comes the fact that periods one and Ioften several of in these casesspelling name,ways have made no at but have left the readerattempt uniformity, to exercise his comes the Scandi-Secondlyjudgment. navian of the definite article en or et to thepractice joining end of the substantive to which it To thisbelongs. keep " article would lead to to a as the the forRose,"referring ship and I have removed but in the case ofaccordingly it,example, names it is difficult to be sure of thisobsolete doing ;correctly I can that Swedish and Danish readers willonly hope recognise the and overlook the errors. The thirddifficulty difficulty lay in Latinthe transliteration of Russian names to the alphabet, but I have tried to do this in such a that it is more or lessway obvious what letters the Russian word contained in its original form. The book contains but Iundoubtedly many imperfections, that it contains few actual I knowand that ithope mistakes, a fuller account of the hasthan beengives period yet in the amount and theattempted; (I hope)perhaps accuracy of the matter the reader will find cause to the mannerforgive in which it is presented. R. C. ANDERSON.