Excerpt from War on the Sea: Strategy and Tactics
In translating Captain Darrieus" interesting work, I have endeavored to adhere as closely to his forms of expression as was compatible with the conveyance of the meaning in English. It would perhaps have been better to have merely tried to put into English the full sense of the French, regardless of actual phrases used; at all events I should thus have avoided sentences which, in English at least, seem unnecessarily tautological.
It may be well to state that the French expression which I have translated "Basic Principles" is "La Doctrine." "The Doctrine" would perhaps express the meaning better, but that seemed to have something of a theological flavor.
With two or three minor exceptions, quotations from the English have been traced to their source, and are given in their original form instead of being re-translated from the French into English.
My attention has been called to the fact that the author"s statement regarding the Minnesota and New Ironsides (page 87) is incorrect; those two vessels were injured but not sunk by torpedo explosions.
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