A vivid and engrossing history of naval warfare from the Horatio Nelson era through the War of 1812, by the "best naval historian of his generation." --John Keegan
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In the history of warfare at sea, no era can match the glory of the Nelson era, during which Britain gained supremacy over her rival, Napoleonic France, in the Battle of Trafalgar of 1805, and after which she was to find a new rival, the young United States, in the War of 1812. With keen insight into the geopolitical dynamics of the nineteenth century and thrilling mastery of narrative detail, Peter Padfield sets the reader on the gun deck amid the cannons, smoke, blood, and death and "offers naval campaigns and sea battles as vivid as anything you will find in Patrick O'Brian" (former secretary of the U.S. Navy John Lehman, The Wall Street Journal).
In his deft and astute analysis of the factors that led Britain to global dominance in the nineteenth century, Padfield shows Naval history to be a major determinant and shaper of the modern world.
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Long acknowledged as a leading expert on maritime history, Peter Padfield is a former naval officer as well as a practicing sailor. He is the author of more than twenty volumes of naval and military history, as well as four novels.
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This review is from: Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom : Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1851 (Paperback)
Peter Padfield has made his reputation as a naval warfare historian. His biography of Admiral Donitz is particularly worthwhile. In this study, he attempts to combine the social, political, financial, and cultural events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a discussion of naval warfare. He provides an interesting evaluation of the effects of maritime supremacy on general world events along with a discussion of the effects of general world events on maritime warfare. Readers with limited background in the general history of this period may find the book somewhat choppy, as Padfield jumps back and forth from military to non-military history. However, his descrtiptions of naval events and battles remain excellent. He has a particuarly good section on the naval aspects of the War of 1812, an area often overlooked by both general and military historians. This is not for the beginner but an experienced reader will find some interesting insights.
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This review is from: Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom : Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1851 (Paperback)
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Illustrations Maps and Diagrams Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The French Revolution, 1789 2 The Terror, 1793 3 The Glorious First of June, 1794 4 St Vincent, 1797 5 Camperdown, 1797 6 The Nile, 1798 7 Copenhagen, 1801 8 Warriors and Merchants 9 Bonaparte's Army of England, 1803 10 Trafalgar, 1805 11 The Empire of the Oceans 12 The Continental Blockade 13 The American War, 1812 14 Lake Erie and Plattsburg Bay, 1813-1814 15 Napoleon's Nemesis 16 The Sceptre of the World Glossary of Nautical Terms References and Notes Select Bibliography Index
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