From 1799 to 1819 more than 1,000 pages of British naval news and views were published every year in The Naval Chronicle, including action reports, intelligence of foreign naval matters, and biographies of officers. In short, it was the most important original account of the naval part of the Napoleonic Wars. Outside the major libraries the 40 volumes of The Naval Chronicle are not generally available. This new consolidated edition, in five volumes, contains all the most significant material from the originals, including Admiral Nelson's only autobiographical record.
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Nicholas Tracy, a member of the history department of the University of New Brunswick, is the editor of Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail and the author of the definitive Nelson's Battles.
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The real story behind modern nautical fiction,
By Bruce Trinque (Amston, CT United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Naval Chronicles: Naval Chronicle: Vol.5, The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War (Hardcover)
Fans of such modern nautical fiction series such as those by Patrick O'Brian, C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent, and Dudley Pope can find within the pages of this volume (and its four predecessors) the contemporary records of the men and events later fictionalized by O'Brian and others. It is all history in the raw, written by the participants at the time of the events described. And when you've read the pages of the Naval Chronicle, you will realilze that the fictional exploits of Jack Aubrey, Horatio Hornblower, and Richard Bolitho are not fantastic at all, simply reflections of what the real Royal Navy did two centuries ago.
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THE EARLY PART OF 1811 was relatively quiet, dampened by the continuing constitutional crisis, and the after-shocks of the failed Scheldt expedition, but the smouldering crisis in British-American relations was gradually moving towards the open warfare of 1812. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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THE EARLY PART OF 1811 was relatively quiet, dampened by the continuing constitutional crisis, and the after-shocks of the failed Scheldt expedition, but the smouldering crisis in British-American relations was gradually moving towards the open warfare of 1812. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Great Britain, Prince Regent, John Wilson Croker, New York, History of the Present Year, Lord Keith, Commodore Rodgers, Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Isle of France, Little Belt, New Orleans, Lake Ontario, Service Admiralty Office, Sir Alexander Cochrane, Sir James Yeo, Colonel Thornton, Queen Charlotte, Captain Dacres, Lord Wellington, North America, Sir George Cockburn, Captain Hope, Captain Roquebert, Napoleon Buonaparte New!
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- American Government by Ross K. Baker on page 95, and page 96
- South America (Continents (Heinemann Paperback)) by Mary Virginia Fox on page 41
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 by Edward Gibbon on page 8
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 of 6 (Everyman's Library) by Edward Gibbon on page 8
- London Gazette: 52027 24th January by Great Britain on page 110
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