Breaking the chains; the Royal Navy's war against white slavery.159114048X Breaking the chains; the Royal Navy's war against white slavery white slavery n. Forced prostitution. . Pocock, Tom. Naval Institute Press 2006 216 pages $29.96 Hardcover DA536 After the Napoleonic wars Napoleonic Wars, 1803–15, the wars waged by or against France under Napoleon I. For a discussion of them see under Napoleon I. Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815) Series of wars that ranged France against shifting alliances of European powers. ended, Western naval forces began a concerted effort to combat the high seas high seas In maritime law, the waters lying outside the territorial waters of any and all states. In the Middle Ages, a number of maritime states asserted sovereignty over large portions of the high seas. piracy and coastal slave raiding Slave raiding is a crime sometimes seen as a normal part of warfare. It is possibly as old as human civilization itself, as it is attested to in some of the earliest surviving written records, from Sumer in Iraq and Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan. that had been practiced for centuries by the independent rulers of the Barbary States of North Africa. In this text, Pocock presents an account of the Royal Navy's role in that conflict, which was viewed by the Islamic world as a revival of the crusades. The focus is on the 1827 sea battle at Navarino, in which British forces and their allies defeated the Ottoman-Egyptian navy and assured the independence of Greece. Journalist Pocock is the author of ten books on naval history. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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