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> [It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/it-is-well-known-that-we-fight-in-god-s-cause-but-unless-god-helps-us/)

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## More by Nicholas Rodger

> [Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/naval-dominance-of-european-waters-was-the-largest-longest-most/)

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> [Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/medieval-england-was-a-great-military-power-with-a-sophisticated/)

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> [It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/it-is-well-known-that-we-fight-in-god-s-cause-but-unless-god-helps-us/)

[Nicholas Rodger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-rodger/)

> [Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/whether-in-peaceful-trade-or-warlike-attack-the-sea-unites-more-than/)

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> [The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/the-common-sense-of-the-word-navy-as-we-use-it-today-refers-to-a/)

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> [It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/it-is-not-surprising-that-only-one-medieval-state-venice-long/)

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> [In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/in-every-age-states-of-varying-size-and-constitution-and-at-every/)

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> [The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/the-impossibility-of-keeping-englishmen-sober-ashore-was-a-constant/)

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> ['A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is simply the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/a-naval-history-of-britain-which-begins-in-the-7th-century-has-to/)

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> [The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/the-arrival-of-the-barbary-pirates-radically-changed-english/)

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> [Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-rodger/its-subject-is-the-slow-and-erratic-process-by-which-the-peoples-of/)

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