In Nelson's wake the navy and the Napoleonic wars
Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy's role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the...
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Yale University Press
2015
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The royal Navy 1803-- 2. Peeping intro brest : The defence of Bratain 1803-04-- 3. Masters of the straits,masters of the world : thwarting Nepoleon 1804-05-- 4. A complete and clorious victory ? trafalgar ang itd aftermath 1805-- 5. Colonies and commerce : The war in the Atlantic, 1805-07-- 6. The elephant and the whale : The conflict in Europe, 1806-07-- 7. Production, prisons and patriotism : The Naval War on Land 160-- 8. Sailors and soldiers: The navy and the army, 1808-09-- 9.Imperial ascendancy : The war in the Indian Ocean , 1803-11-- 10. Economic warfare and the defeat of the continental system, 1806-12-- 11. A naval conflict : The war of 1812-- 12. Boney all at sea : The royal navy and the defeat of Napoleon, 1808-14-- Conclusion