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Hardcover River Gunboats: An Illustrated Encyclopedia Book

ISBN: 1591146143

ISBN13: 9781591146148

River Gunboats: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honourable East India Company's gunboat Diana went into action on the Irrawaddy in Burma. In the 150 years that followed river gunboats played a significant part in over forty campaigns and individual actions, down to the Portuguese and American 'Brown Water' fighting in Africa and Vietnam respectively at the end of the twentieth century. They proved to...

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