12/23/2023 0 Comments English naval dominance armadaNaval policy was made by the king with his cabinet or with his most trusted ministers in an inner cabinet. Similarly, unlike other powers, British political ideology provided the political support for increased expenditure, and her geographical position, offered an advantageous location to maintain major naval forces that could dominate the European littoral. In Britain, unlike the other powers, the economic underpinning of maritime trade provided both the financial resources and physical infrastructure to build and maintain a growing naval force. Maintaining naval forces which had global reach and could exercise sustained force at sea as well as influencing events on land was a massive bureaucratic, financial and economic task, which, for most of the century, other European powers found that they could not maintain long term. The ground work had been laid gradually during the seventeenth century and with the conclusion of the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1713) Britain's rivals for oceanic naval power, the French, Spanish and Dutch, had all faded at least temporarily from serious contention. During the first seventy-five years of the eighteenth century Britain emerged as the paramount world naval power.
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