Definition of "sea power" []

• A nation having significant naval strength. (noun)
• Naval strength. (noun)

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• "Washington hungered to find some means of concerting a joint action, but his limited resources, and the sea power of the British, precluded any major confrontation with the enemy."
• "Suspicion soon grew into certainty that General McClellan, instead of marching southward from Manassas to confront Johnston on the Rapidan, was to utilize Federal sea power in overwhelming Prince John Magruder at Yorktown, or Benjamin Huger at Norfolk."
• "The National Review saw in the restriction of “the second navy in the world to the mud banks of the Elbe … as supreme an exhibition of superior sea power as the world has witnessed.”"