The British Assault on Finland, 1854-1855: A Forgotten Naval War
Year: 1988 Language: English Author: Basil Greenhill, Ann Giffard Genre: Historical Publisher: Naval Institute Press Format: PDF Quality: Unknown Pages count: 204 Description: Purpose of this book is to correct the balance and to put on record the achievements and non-achievements, the trustrations and follies of the British fleets in the Baltic in ] 854 and 1855. They were the fleets of a navy in rapid transition, the first steam-screw battlcflccts that had ever gone to war, the most formidable attacking forces that had ever existed at sea. Its very existence, unique in the world, gave the British steam-screw battle fleet total command of the sea and kept the Russian Fleet, a massive relic of the sailing navies of all the centuries before, locked away behind the formidable defences of Kronstadt, and the autocracy in fear of an attack on the capital city and seat of government, St Petersburg, situated at the head of the Gulf of Finland, behind the protecting forts of Kronstadt. In 1856, when the possibility of such an attack became a certainty, that fact was one of the major influences in bringing the war to an end. In the preceding two summers the threat of the hovering British screw-steamers in the Gulf of Finland had kept 200,000 or more Russian troops, including the crack Guards regiments, on the shores of that Gulf when their presence on the battlefields in south Russia might have changed the course of events there to Russia's advantage.
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The British Assault on Finland, 1854-1855: A Forgotten Naval War
Language: English
Author: Basil Greenhill, Ann Giffard
Genre: Historical
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Format: PDF
Quality: Unknown
Pages count: 204
Description: Purpose of this book is to correct the balance and to put on record the achievements and non-achievements, the trustrations and follies of the British fleets in the Baltic in ] 854 and 1855. They were the fleets of a navy in rapid transition, the first steam-screw battlcflccts that had ever gone to war, the most formidable attacking forces that had ever existed at sea. Its very existence, unique in the world, gave the British steam-screw battle fleet total command of the sea and kept the Russian Fleet, a massive relic of the sailing navies of all the centuries before, locked away behind the formidable defences of Kronstadt, and the autocracy in fear of an attack on the capital city and seat of government, St Petersburg, situated at the head of the Gulf of Finland, behind the protecting forts of Kronstadt. In 1856, when the possibility of such an attack became a certainty, that fact was one of the major influences in bringing the war to an end. In the preceding two summers the threat of the hovering British screw-steamers in the Gulf of Finland had kept 200,000 or more Russian troops, including the crack Guards regiments, on the shores of that Gulf when their presence on the battlefields in south Russia might have changed the course of events there to Russia's advantage.
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