BRITISH NAVY
STILL OUR ALL IN ALL. When Napoleon’s Grand Army of 130,000 men was camped on the heights above Boulogne and along the narrow strip of beach from Staples to Wimereux for the projected invasion of England, he is reputed to have said: “Let us be masters of the Strait for six hours, and We shall be masters of the world.” The project failed, recalls “Taffrail.” In spite of the subsequent victories of those troops at Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland, it was, as wrote Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, of the United States Navy:: "Those far distant, storm-beaten ships upon which the Grand Army never looked that stood between it, and the dominion of the world.,” In spite of steam having superseded sail and steel wood, in spite of the advent of torpedoes, long-range guns, mines, submarines and aircraft, it is the same today. Britain’s Fleet is still her all in all.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1939, Page 5
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152BRITISH NAVY Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1939, Page 5
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