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Sir William Rooke Creswell and the Foundation of the Australian Navy by Sheila Dwyer, Author is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The six Australian colonies united on 1st January 1901 to become the Commonwealth of Australia. One of the reasons given for this federation was that the Commonwealth could provide a common defence. <p>William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in having a 70,000 strong army if only one enemy battleship could destroy port cities and disrupt maritime trade and sea communications. <p>Creswell was not alone in his ca
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- Author
- Sheila Dwyer, Author
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781443854511
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Engineering, Science, Military
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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