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It signalled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century.
Like the U.S. today, Britain led its world economically, technologically and militarily (or at least navally).
In a legal view the apparent victim of the tragedy was he who had sought to victimize a man blameless; and the indisputable deed of the latter, navally regarded, constituted the most heinous of military crimes.
The four cases were attempts to navally blockade countries, especially those heavily dependent on merchant shipping to supply their war industries and feed their populations (such as Britain and Japan), even though the countries waging the unrestricted submarine warfare were unable to institute a typical naval blockade.
Due to the lack of serious naval opposition in the early Imperial period in the area of the fleet's operations - the invasion crossing, for example, went navally uncontested -, the Classis's main role was as logisitical support both to the army in Britannia, and also to armies campaigning in later years in Germania.