When Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the original dispatches from seven major fleet battles The Glorious First of June (1794), St Vincent (1797), Camperdown (1797), The Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801), Trafalgar (1805), and San Domingo (1806) should be gathe[...]
The H.M.S. Temeraire, one of Britain s most illustrious fighting ships, is known to millions through J. M. W. Turner s masterpiece, The Fighting Temeraire (1839), which portrays the battle-scarred veteran of Britain s wars with Napoleonic France. In this evocative new volume, Sam Willis tells the ex[...]
Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea under sail; our knowledge of tactics is largely based upon the ideas of contemporary theorists (rather than practitioners) who knew little of the realities of sailin[...]
A magnificent record of the final 100 years in naval history before wooden hulls and canvas sails gave way to iron and steam[...]
A spectacular collection of 150 images revealing 3000 years of naval history, from ancient Egypt to the glorious age of sail.[...]
The drama and tragedy behind history's most infamous shipwrecks.
A magnificent record of 100 years of naval history, from the Crimean War to World War II.
France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents, two vast French and British fleets meet in the mid-Atlantic following a week of skirmishing. After fierce fight[...]