Sea Power, Strategy, and Europe

Sea Power, Strategy, and Europe

While it is often thought that British military engagement in northwestern Europe ended with Waterloo in 1815 and resumed, a century later, with the First World War in 1914 – with a few periods of invasion anxiety surfacing around the middle of the 19th century –the men of 1814-15 shaped a century of relative stability through skilful diplomacy, strategic choices, and consistent policies, focussed on maintaining sea control to enable effective e…