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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

The Royal Navy in European Waters during the American Revolutionary War. By David Syrett. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 213 pp. $24.95, isbn 1-57003-238-6.)

At one level this volume retells the story of the Royal Navy's operations in European waters covered by William Milburne James in The British Navy in Adversity (1926). But at another it goes well beyond James. David Syrett explores in greater detail how factional rivalries within the navy interacted with political rivalries in the ministry, as well as how the Netherlands became involved in a disastrous naval war with Britain. And his account of operations addresses the question of why the navy proved less effectual during the American War than it had been during the Seven Years' War or would be during the Napoleonic Wars. . . .

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