Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, (21 February 1705 – 17 October 1781) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As captain of the third-rate HMS Berwick, he took part in the Battle of Toulon in February 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession. He also captured six ships of a French squadron in the Bay of Biscay in the second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747. (From Wikipedia) More about Edward Hawke Hawke:
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7 additional books about Edward Hawke Hawke in the extended shelves: Types of naval officers drawn from the history of the British Navy; with some account of the conditions of naval warfare at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and of its subsequent development during the sail period (Little, Brown, and Company, 1901), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
From Howard to Nelson: twelve sailors (Lawrence and Bullen, ltd., 1899), by John Knox Laughton (page images at HathiTrust)
The life of Edward Lord Hawke : Admiral of the Fleet, Vice-Admiral of Great Britain, and First Lord of the Admiralty from 1766 to 1771 ... (W. H. Allen, 1883), by Montagu Burrows (page images at HathiTrust)
The life of Edward Lord Hawke, admiral of the fleet, vice-admiral of Great Britain, and first lord of the admiralty from 1766 to 1771 (W. H. Allen, 1896), by Montagu Burrows (page images at HathiTrust)
From Howard to Nelson : twelve sailors (Heinemann, 1907), by John Knox Laughton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Types of naval officers drawn from the history of the British Navy : with some account of the conditions of naval warfare at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and of its subsequent development during the sail period (Little, Brown, 1913), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
Types of naval officers drawn from the history of the British Navy : with some account of the conditions of naval warfare at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and of its subsequent development during the sail period (Little, Brown, 1904), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
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