The Blockade Runners: Maritime Power and Modern Lessons – April 2025

The Blockade Runners: Maritime Power and Modern Lessons – April 2025
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April 2025

Reading Big Serge’s history of naval warfare series, most recently The Rise of Shot and Sail, I was struck at the sheer scale of it. The time, sacrifice, inventions, and resources it took for a collection of marginal European nations, on the edge of 15th century maps to rise and overtake the Ottoman Empire in global trade. It took over a century and nothing happens in a vacuum. In 1453 with the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, Orthodox Christianity didn’t just lose its heart, trade on the European continent was disrupted with new taxes levied by the Sultan ruling Istanbul sitting astride existing global trade routes.

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