Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-166) and index.

The age of galleys : The early civilizations; The wars of the ancient Greeks; The naval wars of Rome; The Arabs in the Mediterranean; The voyages of the 'Norsemen'; Naval wars in the Mediterranean from the 11th to the 14th century; Warfare in the English Channel from the 13th to the 15th century; The Hanseatic League from the 12th to the 16th century; Wars in the Mediterranean from the 15th to the 17th century; The Far East in the 16th century. The age of sail : Voyages of the discoverers; Spain and the Thirty Years War; 1652-54 : the first Anglo-Dutch war; 1654-59 : The Anglo-Spanish War; 1657-60 : The Swedish-Danish War; 1665-67 : The Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1672-80 : The Third Anglo-Dutch War; 1672-80 : The Franco-Dutch War; 1675-79 : The Scanian War; 1688-97 : The War of the League of Augsburg; 1684-98 : The Morean War; 1702-13 : The War of the Spanish Succession; 1700-13 : The Great Northern War; Wars in the Mediterranean, 1714-20; 1740-48 :The War of the Austrian Succession; 1756-63 : The Seven Years War; 1768-74 : The First Russo-Turkish War; The charting of the Pacific; 1775-83 : The American Revolution; Russian's wars with Turkey and Sweden, 1787-91. The age of iron and steel : 1853-56 : The Crimean War; 1861-65 : The American Civil War; 1866 : The Austro-Italian War; Wars in the Far East, 1883-95; 1898 : The Spanish-American War; 1904-5 : The Russo-Japanese War; 1914-48 : The First World War; Naval events between the World Wars; 1939-45 : The Second World War. The nuclear age : 1950-53 : The Korean War -- Appendices.