Author: MOSTERT, NOËL
Title: The line upon a wind: the great war at sea, 1793-1815 / Noel Mostert
Description: New York; Lampeter: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008. 1st U.S. edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxv. 774 p. [16] p. of plates: ill. maps; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [748]-752) and index. Notes; Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape. 2007. 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. Summary; 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 battle: Admiral Horatio Nelson. Noel Mostert's narrative ranges from the Mediterranean to the West Indies. Egypt to Scandinavia. showing how land versus sea was the key to the outcome of these wars. He provides details of ship construction. tactics. and life on board. Above all he shows us the extraordinary characters that were the raw material of Patrick O'Brian's and C. S. Forester's magnificent novels. Subjects; Anglo-French War. 1793-1802 - Naval operations. Napoleonic Wars. 1800-1815 - Naval operations. Seafaring life - History - 18th century. Seafaring life - History - 19th century. Europe - History. Naval - 18th century. Europe - History. Naval - 19th century. European history: c 1750 to c 1900; War & defence operations; Military history. EUROPE; c 1700 to c 1800. HISTORY / Military / Naval. Weight in Kg appr.:

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