Key Point: She changed naval warfare–forever. State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late nineteenth century involved a mix of large- and small-caliber weapons. Naval architects believed that ...

The state of naval warfare at the end of the 18th century -- The wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon : Britain versus France and nearly everyone else, 1793-1815 -- The revolution in ships, ...

Here's What You Need To Remember: The notion that a warship could go from being the world class to obsolete in a decade (perhaps less, given how quickly new ships outclassed Dreadnought) is almost ...