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Constructing the Military Revolution (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Current Research and On Going Projects at the J Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. European naval warfare in the 17th century went through a dramatic change against the backdrop of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. English and Dutch navies, using the ship of the line as an offensive weapon, switched from a melee style of battle to the line of battle. This new tactic, which...