Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable to France in proportion as the Mediterranean remained free to transport. Along the Mediterranean's northern shore the line-up was still more confused. French naval bases at Toulon and Villefranche, guarding French communications with Africa, threatening Italian coastal cities; Italy, with her 105 submarines, Europe's biggest fleet; the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, long wanted by Germany, source of friction in the Axis when it ran at its best; Greece, guaranteed by France and Great Britain, threatened from Albania; Turkey, also guaranteed, courted by Germany, allied with Greece. Beyond these northern shores the Balkans simmered, politically and militarily...
...heights of Salamis overlooking the Bay of Eleusis, the mighty Persian, Xerxes, in 480 B. C. watched his fleet sink under attack of 300 Greek battleships...
...Actium, in 31 B. C., while spellbound land forces stopped fighting to watch, Octavian's Roman fleet struck the Eastern fleet of Antony and Cleopatra, until Antony's soldiers saw their leader abandon the fight, sail off with the Egyptian queen...
...Gulf of Lepanto the 300 Christian ships commanded by Don John of Austria struck the Turkish fleet in 1571, enfolded it and then pierced it, destroyed it except for 40 vessels that made a desperate heroic escape...
...that war the British fleet never ventured into the Baltic, but blockaded Germany from the North Sea. This time, with a North Sea fleet twice as big as Germany's, Britain might attempt to seize the dangerous Baltic. In such a case, Norway, Sweden and Finland would all lose rich trade with Germany. Norway, fourth largest shipper among the countries of the World, would find its shipping interfered with by even a North Sea blockade...