Amphibious Operations

By Ethnarch
  • Period: Jun 19, 1500 to

    Price Revolution

    Military Cost inflation
  • Period: Jun 19, 1536 to

    Early Operations

    1740s real beginning
    17th to early 18th Century British Operations marked by incompetance
  • Period: Jun 19, 1543 to

    Sir Francis Drake

    English Raiding of the Spanish Empire
  • Period: Jun 19, 1577 to Jun 19, 1580

    Drake Circumnavigate the world

    Major strategic objective to raid and plunder west coast of S.America, not protected

  • English Intervention Dutch War of Independence

    7000 troops to the Naetherlands, added 80 years to the Dutch War of Independence

  • Spanish Armada

    Raided by drake in 1587, pre emptive and delay a year and destroy supplies

  • Norris and Drake

    Did their own thing and went rogue

  • Earl of Essex

    Captured 144 artillery and 2 dozen large ships ransomed= multiples of spanish crown revenue

  • Cromwells Western Design

    strategically initiate attacks on Spanish Colonies , remove Haiti and Dominica Republic
    Ships were the fire support and having issues with command

  • Sir Francis Wheeler

    Against france 15 ships and West Indies to support an attack , inefficient command arrangement

  • Gibraltar 1704

    War of Spanish Succession
    Successful landings

  • Vernon and Wentworth 1740-2

    West Indies
    Didnt get along and 17th Century raiding made it more difficult with fortificaitons