The the great war at sea, 1793-1815 Mostert, Noël. creator text nyu New York W.W. Norton & Co. 2008 1st American ed monographic eng

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xxv, 774 pages : illustrations ; 2008 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 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 Noël. Mostert M915 2008 9780393066531 0393066533 260512 20260512121439.0 spa