Dives-gent counsels of the coalition
"Ulterior objects"
The allied navies systematically assume a defensive attitude
Dangers of this line of action
Glamour of commerce-destroying
The conditions of peace, 1783

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INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY.



INTRODUCTORY.

The history of Sea Power is largely, though by no means solely, a
narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of
violence frequently culminating in war. The profound influence of sea
commerce upon the wealth and strength of countries was clearly seen
long before the true principles which governed its growth and
prosperity were detected. To secure to one's own people a
disproportionate share of such benefits, every effort was made to
exclude others, either by the peaceful legislative methods of monopoly
or prohibitory regulations, or, when these failed, by direct violence.
The clash of interests, the angry feelings roused by conflicting
attempts thus to appropriate the larger share, if not the whole, of
the advantages of commerce, and of distant unsettled commercial