| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xxvii, 774 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [748]-752) and index. |
| Contents |
Maps -- I. THE TACTICAL EVOLUTION. Ocean -- Navy -- Century -- Decade -- II. THE GREAT WAR, FIRST PHASE, 1793-1805. Wood -- Shipboard -- Toulon -- Buonaparte -- Corsica -- Battle -- Uncertainty -- Change -- Triumph -- Mutiny -- Tenerife -- Camperdown -- Duel -- Offensive -- Nile -- Barbary -- Neutrality -- "Quasi-war" -- Impressed -- Naples -- Acre -- Return -- Consul -- Home -- Baltic -- Straits -- Amiens -- "Temeraire" -- Resumption -- Boulogne -- Tripoli -- Watch -- Chase -- Prelude -- Trafalgar -- Aftermath -- III. THE CONCLUSIVE STRUGGLE, 1805-1816. Appraisal -- Rampage -- Sandy Hook -- Chesapeake -- Abominable -- Peninsula -- Collingwood -- Cadiz -- Catalonia -- Basque roads -- Expeditionary forces -- Timor -- China & Japan -- Crisis -- Breakdown -- "Swallow" -- Tarragona -- America -- War -- "Macedonian" -- Reflection -- Northwest -- Lakeland -- Torpedoes -- Elba -- Snow march -- Patuxent -- New Orleans -- Adriatic -- Adieu -- Algiers. |
| Subject |
Anglo-French War, 1793-1802 -- Naval operations.
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Naval operations.
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Seafaring life -- History -- 18th century.
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Seafaring life -- History -- 19th century.
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Europe -- History, Naval -- 18th century.
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Europe -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
9780393066531 hardcover |
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0393066533 hardcover |
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