Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Western Squadron

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  1. Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean
    39:02Command through grief and Britain's wider fleet depthNotable Point
  2. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    43:47Samuel Hood enters Rodney's patronage networkChapter
  3. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    48:11Why Eagle missed the First Battle of Cape FinisterreNotable Point
  4. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    49:51Rodney at the Second Battle of Cape FinisterreChapter
  5. The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)
    2:26:43Barbary piracy and the Western SquadronQ&A
  6. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    13:47Sea control was local, not absoluteChapter
  7. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    15:15From Byng at Minorca to durable naval superiorityNotable Point
  8. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    45:40Where Britain did and did not lose sea controlNotable Point
  9. Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail
    10:03Local superiority and Britain's invasion defenceNotable Point
  10. Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)
    31:31Institutional memory set the Royal Navy's prioritiesNotable Point
  11. Glorious First of June (1794)
    53:50Why Britain did not intercept the money for American grainQ&A
  12. Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)
    17:18Reading the Western Squadron's Brest blockadeNotable Point
  13. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    32:26Why the Western Squadron still failed in 1758Notable Point
  14. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    1:04:02The Western Squadron begins with coastal defenseChapter
  15. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    1:12:44Q&A: Why early Western Squadron command is disputedQ&A
  16. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    1:13:19The Western Squadron becomes a blockade forceChapter
  17. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    1:20:14Why the Western Squadron drew senior commandersNotable Point
  18. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    1:28:37Corry's path from Channel command to the BalticNotable Point
  19. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    1:32:11Plymouth as the blockade’s supporting baseNotable Point
  20. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    4:00:33Brest and the Western Squadron’s strategic legacyChapter
  21. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    0:08Failed cruises made a close blockade urgentChapter
  22. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    7:51Why Brest made the Western Squadron indispensableChapter
  23. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    24:36The Western Squadron's early coastal roleChapter
  24. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    26:41Anson's larger cruising squadronChapter
  25. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    31:50Why Penn's successor is uncertainNotable Point
  26. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    32:50Command continuity carried the squadron into the nineteenth centuryNotable Point
  27. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    36:06Plymouth becomes the blockade's support baseNotable Point
  28. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    39:35Why fourth rates could protect British supply convoysNotable Point
  29. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    1:54:47Why the Western Squadron remained a strategic barrierNotable Point
  30. Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books
    18:51Why better navigation would not free sailing fleets from geographyQ&A
  31. Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History
    2:54:22Rigid fighting instructions and the Western SquadronChapter
  32. Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail
    2:50:32Sidney Smith's Western Squadron raids, capture, and escapeChapter