British home army in the First World War bridge between Tilbury and Gravesend. There were fears that a German fleet protected by mines and submarines could land a 100,000-strong force before the British Grand Fleet could steam the south from its base at Scapa Flow. To counter this threat, the Admiralty redeployed pre-dreadnought battleships and submarines closer to vulnerable ports, expanded the coastwatch and increased patrolling of the North Sea. In October, Churchill responded to Kitchener's call for the Royal Navy to take more specific precautions against invasion by insisting that the role of the Grand Fleet was to eliminate an invader's covering fleet rather than defeat the
The Ancient Art of War in the Skies The Ancient Art of War in the Skies The Ancient Art of War in the Skies is a video game developed by Evryware in 1992 for PC/MS-DOS computers as a sequel to "The Ancient Art of War" and "The Ancient Art of War at Sea". In 1993 the game was converted to Amiga and Atari ST. In "The Ancient Art of War in the Skies", the player plays either the British or German forces in World War I. In this air combat simulation, the player makes aerial assaults against opponents such as Lord Kitchener, Ferdinand Foch, Kaiser Wilhelm II, fictional