Can Germany Invade England?

by Colonel H. B. Hanna

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CAN GERMANY
INVADE ENGLAND?

 

CAN GERMANY INVADE ENGLAND?

BY

COLONEL H. B. HANNA.

LATE COMMANDING AT DELHI

AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND AFGHAN WAR";
"INDIAN PROBLEMS"; "CAN RUSSIA INVADE INDIA?";
"INDIA'S SCIENTIFIC FRONTIER"; "BACKWARDS OR FORWARDS";
"THE DEFENCE OF INDIA'S NORTH-WEST FRONTIER"; "CAVALRY CATECHISM," ETC.

 

"Give me facts, feed me on facts.

Carlyle.

"The Navy means for you your existence as an Empire; it means for you the fact that you are free from invasion; it means for you your daily food and daily employment. The Navy is all in all and everything; therefore, though the cost is great, it is little compared with what it brings back to you."

Lord Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty in the late Government.

" What is the real basis and justification of the craven fears which threaten to burden this country with a sort of conscript army, which threaten to turn this country into a sort of Germany, with its millions of soldiers, and which threaten to lose us even a sort of command of the sea, for we cannot serve two masters?"

Archibald Hurd, Author of "The Command of the Sea"

 

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C,
LONDON

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Third Edition

 

First published October 1912

 

CONTENTS

1. CHAPTER

   PAGE

2. I.

   GREAT BRITAN'S STRATEGICAL POSITION AND SOURCES OF DEFENSIVE STRENGTH. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   1

3. II.

   STRENGTH AND DISPOSITION IN EUROPEAN WATERS OF THE ENGLISH AND GERMAN FLEETS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   10

4. III.

   THE INVASION SCARE ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   35

5. IV.

   CONSTITUTION OF INVADING FORCE: TRANSPORT AND SUPPLY ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   60

6. V.

   THE SHIPPING PROBLEM ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   82

7. VI.

   MOBILISATION: CONCENTRATION: EMBARKATION ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   96

8. VII.

   VOYAGE: DISEMBARKATION: AND—AFTER ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   112

9. VIII.

   CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   136

10. INDEX

    145