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John Daniel Hayes

John Daniel Hayes, (Born 23 January 1902 in New York City - died on 29 March 1991 in Cary, North Carolina) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy and a naval historian.


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Battle of La Rochelle

The Castilian naval historian Cesáreo Fernández Duro claims that the English prisoners amounted to 400 knights and 8,000 soldiers, without counting the killed.

Charles O. Paullin

Harold D. Langley, "Remembering a Forgotten Naval Historian," Naval History, vol.

Erich Raeder pre Grand Admiral

The dominating figure of the Navy was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the autocratic State Secretary of the Navy who using the theories of the American naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan had devised a distinctive Seemachtideologie, a Social Darwinist view of international relations where only the strongest states survived, and which in turn required a policy of imperialism to ensure that the German state was the strongest.

Geoffrey Hornby

The naval historian Sir William Laird Clowes, who knew him well, wrote that '... he was a natural diplomatist, and an unrivalled tactician; and, to a singular independence and uprightness of character, he added a mastery of technical detail, and a familiarity with contemporary thought and progress that were unusual in those days among officers of his standing'.

Matt Preston

Preston is the son of well respected British Naval historian/journalist Antony Preston and was educated in Sussex at Worth School and graduated from the University of Kent with a BA Hons in Politics and Government.

Medina-class gunboat

Their ungainly appearance led them to be described by the naval historian Antony Preston as "the most grotesque craft ever seen".

Military Staff Committee

The Military Staff Committee was therefore perhaps accurately described by British naval historian, Dr. Eric Grove, as "a sterile monument to the faded hopes of the founders of the UN".

Rodney M. Bennett

He came from naval background; his father, Geoffrey Bennett, was a novelist and naval historian (he used the middle initial to avoid confusion with namesakes).

W. A. B. Douglas

William Alexander Binny "Alec" Douglas (born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia 4 June 1929) is a Canadian naval historian, who was Director, Directorate of History, National Defence Headquarters (Canada), 1973–1993, then Director General History, 1993–1994.

World Ship Society

Notable amongst its early members were the then editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, Francis McMurtrie, and former editor and noted naval historian Oscar Parkes.