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Peter Padfield made his name with works on the naval gunnery and warships: Guns at Sea, The Battleship Era, Armada and War Beneath the Sea. He is also a practical sailor. He trained as a cadet in HMS Worcester and sailed with the replica seventeenth-century bark Mayflower II to Massachusetts.

Prehistory of modern sea power; the Spanish Armada, 1588; the Downs, 1639; the Dutch Golden Age; Sole Bay, 1672; the Glorious Revolution, and Beachy Head, 1690; Barfleur / La Houge, 1692; Malaga, 1704; Rule, Britannia; Finisterre, 1747; Quiberon Bay, 1759; the American Revolution; War of American Independence amd Chesapeake Bay, 1781; the Saints, 1782, and the founding of the United States.