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Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World

Series 1

Episode 4: Sea Change

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC HD

Dan Snow looks at how the 19th-century Navy used gunboat diplomacy to push British interests further afield, before losing its naval supremacy after the First World War. Show more

BBC HD