Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Galley Warfare

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  1. Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:15:18Why ancient warships avoided enslaved rowersQ&A
  2. Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command
    23:03A fleet of states, orders, and hired shipsChapter
  3. Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command
    46:43How the opposing fleets divided their formationsChapter
  4. Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command
    54:31Enslaved rowers could reverse the boarding balanceNotable Point
  5. Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command
    1:02:35Ammunition failure and rower mutiny delivered captured galleysNotable Point
  6. Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command
    1:04:07Roman galley service did not follow the Ben-Hur imageNotable Point
  7. Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command
    1:05:34Prize-taking produced a severe casualty imbalanceNotable Point
  8. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:36:29Lepanto blunted Ottoman momentum in the MediterraneanQ&A
  9. Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario
    1:35How a galleass combined oars, sails, and a broadsideChapter
  10. Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario
    2:54Why coerced rowers made unreliable propulsionNotable Point
  11. Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario
    7:53How Louis XIV's courts supplied galley laborNotable Point
  12. Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario
    10:48Galley labor exposed the limits of early-modern state financeNotable Point
  13. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    20:16Hogland and Gangut reveal Russia's growing Baltic powerChapter
  14. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    42:18Grengam turns confined water into a Russian weaponNotable Point
  15. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:56:04Galley combat in the centuries before LepantoQ&A
  16. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    45:22Gangut rewards Russian concentration after a readiness warningChapter
  17. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    1:11:35Grengam produces rival victory claims after four frigates are lostNotable Point
  18. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    2:02:38Swedish naval effort founders on army inaction in 1741-43Chapter
  19. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    3:04:12Incomplete defenses doom Sweden at the first SvensksundChapter
  20. Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:44:45Why sailing navies could not economize by starving crewsQ&A
  21. Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras
    6:11HMS Spitfire carried galley warfare into North AmericaNotable Point
  22. Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...
    14:03Ottoman wars and the skill of managing noble commandersChapter
  23. Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)
    28:00Chaika galleys on the Ottoman river frontierNotable Point
  24. Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral
    40:09Ali Pasha brought land-command instincts to LepantoChapter
  25. Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral
    42:19Lepanto's flagship duel made command experience decisiveNotable Point
  26. The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians
    22:19Roman galley rowers were usually professionalsChapter
  27. The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians
    41:19What a quinquereme's five probably countedQ&A
  28. The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians
    1:00:52Why polyremes probably used only two or three oar banksNotable Point
  29. Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered
    35:45The last oared warships in Baltic serviceQ&A
  30. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    4:34Why Actium's warships are hard to reconstructChapter
  31. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    17:19Dead water as a possible constraint on galley manoeuvreNotable Point
  32. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    35:02Heavy ships against a balanced, manoeuvring fleetChapter
  33. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    39:45Roman heavy hulls made ramming and boarding complementaryNotable Point
  34. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    44:19How smaller galleys could disable larger onesNotable Point
  35. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    48:27How rower biomechanics constrained hexaremes and octaremesNotable Point
  36. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    50:09Liburnian manoeuvre and Cleopatra's escapeChapter
  37. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    53:43Building fleets: workforce, hulls, and bronze ramsChapter
  38. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    59:16How Mediterranean galley hulls were assembledNotable Point
  39. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    1:01:24Large galleys as complex prestige warshipsNotable Point
  40. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    1:55Ancient fleets as human-powered systemsChapter
  41. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    20:08From triremes to the quinqueremeChapter
  42. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    37:32Galley crews as power source and boarding manpowerChapter
  43. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    10:49Ben-Hur and the problem of enslaved fighting crewsQ&A
  44. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    13:36Did armour make drowning more likely?Q&A
  45. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    31:37Were galley oarsmen slaves or elite crew?Q&A
  46. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    39:36When were enslaved galley rowers plausible?Q&A
  47. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    43:22Why trained oarsmen decided a galley's valueChapter
  48. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    52:29Why did galley fighting depend on oars?Q&A
  49. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    1:13:17What was the Roman boarding bridge called?Q&A
  50. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    1:17:26Rome abandons the corvus and trains for maneuverChapter
  51. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    1:25:43Were ballistae and scorpions carried at sea?Q&A
  52. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    2:22:06How did galley ramming tactics work?Q&A
  53. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    2:30:17Were incendiaries used in Punic naval battles?Q&A
  54. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    2:31:18How developed was naval artillery at Aegates?Q&A
  55. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    2:31:46Could several galleys cooperate against one?Q&A
  56. Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys
    2:47:32Lepanto 1571 and the Ottoman composite bowChapter