The line upon a wind : the great war at sea, 1793-1815
"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"--Inside cover
eBook, English, 2008
First American edition View all formats and editions
W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2008
History
1 online resource (xxv, 774 pages, [16] pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
9780393114010, 0393114015
916055557
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
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2007