Excerpt from From Heligoland to Keeling Island: One Hundred Days of Naval War There is a tendency to forget that we cannot use any military power on the Continent or else where outside these islands unless we possess a permanent, or at least a temporary, command of the sea. The British Army on the Continent exists in Virtue of the guarantee of safe sea communications which the British Fleet has hitherto been enabled to give. The matter is fundamental, and it is well that it should receive due prominence at a moment when there is a tendency to deplore that we had not a larger army to throw across the Channel to support the cause of freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.