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  1. Friedrich Wilhelm KANARIS
    Admiral Kanaris has made a major contribution to the revival of the German Navy after the Versailles peace…
     
  2. Michael ADRIANSZON RYUYTER
    Most marine historians agree that the Dutch admiral Ryuyter was one of the most prominent naval commanders of all times and peoples…
     
  3. GEORGE Monk
    But he also was, and naval commanders, and politicians who consider the architect of England after the restoration of republican government…
     
  4. EDUARD HOUK
    Houka victory in 1759 destroyed the French plans to invade the land of Great Britain during the Seven Years War…
     
  5. Samuel HOOD
    He entered the navy in 1741, with 1743 serving under the command of Rodneya, became a lieutenant in 1746…
     
  6. Yang GENDRIK KINSBERGEN
    My father wrote his Cadet Company, in which he served, and took the boy in the trip, when Jan was not yet ten years old…
     
  7. Francois-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers
    Vice Admiral de Bryues (DBSA) (1753-1798) in Abukirskom battle courage and determination redeemed errors…
     
  8. CHARLES NEPIER
    Admiral of Portuguese and English fleets Nepir distinguished in many battles, but in the history of unsuccessful campaign entered the fleet, which he commanded in the Baltic Sea…
     
  9. Mikhail Petrovich LAZAR
    A few decades there quietly "Lazarevskaya School seamen, brought up the heroes of Sinop, the first defense of Sevastopol, and the creators of the steam fleet…
     
  10. SANEYYUKI Akiyama
    But hardly a wide range of Russian readers know the name of Akiyama, who developed the plan of battle with the Japanese side…
     
  11. ALFRED VON Tirpicz
    However, gross admiral did not have the possibility to control the fleet, the organization of which he has invested so much power…
     
  12. DAVID Beatty
    Since childhood, he received a Spartan upbringing and physical preparation of the athlete and later helped to carry the burdens of military service…
     
  13. WILLIAM Frederick Health
    Admiral Health was one of the few naval new era in which the superiority of aircraft over the battleship, it became apparent even before the Second World War…
     
  14. Andrew Cunningham
    Commanding the Mediterranean fleet, nearly three years, Cunningham has successfully fought against the Italian fleet, demonstrating the military and diplomatic power…
     
  15. BERTRAND Home RAMSEY
    Admiral Ramsay had to evacuate a British expeditionary corps in 1940, and manage marine Allied landings in Normandy in 1944…
     
  16. DOUGLAS McArthur
    "The American at all one hundred percent of our" American Caesar "- so named Douglas MacArthur, one of his friends…
     
  17. Pattu Kunjali - Marakkar III
    Nearly five centuries zamoriny - the rulers of Calicut (area in the Indian subcontinent) - ensure the safety of trade in the Arabian and Red Seas, was in constant contact with the ports of the Persian Gulf and Africa…
     
  18. Robert Blake
    English Admiral Robert Blake - one of the examples showing that a good horseman, led the fleet might not be the worst naval than many sailors…