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Synopsis
Excerpt from Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, Vol. 11
The influence of sea power on history is a theme per taining rather to the statesman and historian than to the technical officer, whose main delight in studies of engage ments is found in knowing how fields and fights were won. The immediate results are of the first importance to his mind, and, though neither blind nor indifferent to the importance of consequences, his aim is always to achieve the first, and trust to natural issues for the second.
In the profound discussion of the subject the general public may confound the objects which it is sought to attain with the particular steps which it is necessary to take en route.
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