In 1821, the year of Napoleon's death, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered the dispatches of the seven major fleet battles of the Napoleonic Wars to be gathered together and presented to the nation. Discovered nearly 200 years later by naval historian Sam Willis, the letters are transcribed here: vivid, first hand accounts written by admirals, captains, surgeons and boatswains serving at The Glorious First of June, St Vincent, Camperdown, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar and San Domingo.

In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson

History

Dr Sam Willis

Europe

Atlantic

<p>With a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, The Struggle for Sea Power charts the greatest war in the age of sail. In 1775 thirteen isolated colonies, without a navy or an army, began a war with Britain to win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth. The American Revolution was a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans - to say nothing of rivers and lakes. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in so many different theatres. Using original logs, reports, diaries and archaeological discoveries, The Struggle for Sea Power traces every key military event in the path to American Independence from a naval perspective. This is the gripping tale of the birth of the New World.</p>

The Struggle for Sea Power: The Royal Navy vs the World, 1775-1782

Americas

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Histories of the Unexpected Collection 4 Books Set (The Vikings, The Tudors, World War II, The Romans)

Professor James Daybell

Ancient Civilizations

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