The strategic value of this pincer hold over a three-mile-wide water channel has been recognized — and fought over — since the days of Homer and the Ancient Greeks.
Cecilia Beaux: ‘Captain John Paul Jones, Continental Navy,’ detail, 1906. United States Naval Academy Museum via Wikimedia Commons
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