Cruisers & La Guerre de Course

Author: Ian Marshall

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The astonishingly effective campaign waged by a handful of Confederate raiders during the Civil War was keenly watched in France and Russia, and above all in Britain. In the fifty years which followed, the most sensitive area in the balance of naval power was the potential damage to worldwide commerce which could be caused by raiders. The steel-built protected cruiser, as a warship type, was evolved to counter this threat. Many countries engaged in the development of cruisers, some to give force to the threat, and some for commerce protection.

About the Author

Ian Marshall is a Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists and author of four other titles. He acquired his qualifications as an architect at the University of Cape Town and University of Pennsylvania. For 20 years Mr. Marshall's paintings have been shown in London in Swann's Gallery now under the name of Tryon and Royal Exchange Art Gallery. His works also hang in permanent collections of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum at Annapolis, Maryland and the Royal Naval Msueum at Portsmouth, England among others museums.