Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Fire Ships

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  1. Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    27:38British fireships against invasion harborsNotable Point
  2. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville & the Battle of Hudson Bay(1697)
    25:25Ice removes the English fireship before battleNotable Point
  3. The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory
    1:30:17French recognition failures turn fire inwardNotable Point
  4. Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada
    54:02The Calais delay and eight English fireshipsChapter
  5. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:44:20Major naval battles fought on lakes and riversQ&A
  6. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    1:49:00The Vyborg Bay breakout preserves Sweden's fleetChapter
  7. Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:34:35Why the Royal Navy rarely received privately donated warshipsQ&A
  8. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    2:13:01Improvised French measures add confusion after darkNotable Point
  9. Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees
    1:47:40Victory's layered battery balanced range and rate of fireChapter
  10. From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live
    1:06:03Fireships punished fleets without prepared countermeasuresNotable Point
  11. Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...
    55:34A landing-first solution to fireships and Parma coordinationNotable Point
  12. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    37:05From wooden fireships to uncrewed attack boatsQ&A
  13. Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'
    1:03:51Shipowners volunteer valuable vessels as fireshipsChapter
  14. Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends
    1:20:13Why the Royal Navy did not send fireships into American portsQ&A
  15. USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 10
    49:29HMS Nymphe's fireship raid nearly destroys IndependenceNotable Point
  16. Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)
    3:36:51More galleys could ease the Armada's fireship crisisQ&A
  17. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    2:09:22La Hogue turns retreat into destructionChapter
  18. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    43:30Barfleur: line tactics, wind shifts, and a day-long battleChapter
  19. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    55:49La Hogue: pursuit turned damage into destructionChapter
  20. Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy
    44:00A limited British squadron with a coercive missionNotable Point
  21. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    1:04:34The Battle of the Rice Boats at SavannahChapter
  22. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    1:19:09The gunfight and the improvised fire shipChapter
  23. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century
    58:02Who commanded rated and unrated vesselsNotable Point
  24. Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?
    1:10:02The fire-ship clash that started NavarinoChapter
  25. Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?
    1:12:09Scipion's crew fights fire under attackNotable Point
  26. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    2:04:06Reconstructing the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet is difficultChapter
  27. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    2:14:58Did the Royal Navy invent fireships?Q&A
  28. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    2:32:36Fireships and forts were the defenders' best asymmetric toolsNotable Point
  29. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    2:33:31A three-line horseshoe invited the Allies into point-blank rangeChapter
  30. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    2:48:45A fireship confrontation triggered general actionChapter
  31. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    2:53:16Scipion's crew saved the ship from a fireshipNotable Point
  32. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    16:42Chesma punishes an Ottoman fleet that confines itselfNotable Point
  33. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    21:44Could Persia have avoided the Salamis trap?Q&A
  34. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    1:48:31Was Operation Chariot a modern fire-ship attack?Q&A
  35. Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)
    2:58:17Dungeness exposes the limits of the Kentish Knock victoryChapter
  36. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    1:45:00Why senior commanders should not lead routine away teamsNotable Point
  37. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 1696
    8:40A French frigate force finds a lightly protected Dutch convoyChapter
  38. Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword
    18:08Greek sailors and fireships delayed Ottoman-Egyptian reconquestChapter
  39. Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)
    1:11:01Fleet lists reveal Stromboli's communications and logisticsChapter
  40. Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)
    2:00:12Fire ships devastate the allied fleet at PalermoNotable Point
  41. An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)
    21:18Fleet balance and the role of fireshipsNotable Point
  42. An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 2
    28:14Fireships turned protection into vulnerabilityNotable Point