02046nam a22002537a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260512121439.0 ta 260512s2008 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780393066531 0393066533 spa BJBSDDR eng M915 2008 Mostert, Noël. 48401 The line upon a wind : the great war at sea, 1793-1815 / Noël. Mostert 1st American ed New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008 xxv, 774 pages : illustrations ; 2008 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 Postscript In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in scale only to the Second World War. New naval tactics were brought to bear, along with such unheard-of weapons as rockets, torpedoes, and submarines. The war on land saw the rise of the greatest soldier the world had ever known--Napoleon Buonaparte--whose vast ambition was thwarted by a genius he never met in person or in battleL: Admiral Horatio Nelson lcc 0 BK cmc 127059 127059 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2026-05-12 0 M915 2008 00000199790 2026-05-12 12:14:55 1 2026-05-12 BK