"Naval Hand-to-Hand Combat Tactics in Northwestern...2" Topic

…Europe in the 16th Century.

"Much research has been undertaken over the years to illuminate the use of naval power in European warfare in the past (e.g. Corbett 1905; Paviot 1997; Dickie et al. 2009; Nelson 2001; Rose 2002; Grant 2008; Hildred 2011); yet, there has been surprisingly little written on the subject of naval boarding and hand-to-hand fighting tactics at sea in general. Within the overall trajectory of the development of warfare at sea, naval hand-to-hand combat in 16th century northwestern Europe merits special attention and presents itself as a particularly instructive topic. The NW European commitment to extricate itself from the medieval bind of determining naval battles by boarding and the focal shift towards heavy ordnance fire tactics is an important stage in the development of naval warfare (fig. 1); but it cannot be fully understood before we adopt a more holistic approach to understanding engagements at sea, one that also includes and explains the practice of naval hand-to-hand combat…"
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