Billy Budd | Compare and Contrast

1790s: Late eighteenth-century warships of the British navy are powered by sails. Seventy-four gun ships—especially fast and easy to handle— are most common. Steam power is being explored as a means of ship propulsion.

1890s: The United States begins building a "new navy" in the 1880s: ironclad steam-powered ships with a variety of weapons on board.

1924: The Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty, signed in 1922, restricts Allied countries from building new battleships until 1931 and orders that most battleships of outdated construction be destroyed....

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