Arming The Royal Navy 1793 1815

Author : Gareth Cole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317322398
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arming the Royal Navy, 1793–1815 written by Gareth Cole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office of Ordnance has been ill-served by previous accounts of its role in arming the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Cole offers an in-depth examination of its organizational structure and demonstrates how the department responded to the pressures of war over an extended period of time.

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846031380
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Navy 1793–1815 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain was the undisputed master of the seas owing to the power and strength of the Royal Navy. Its fleets, comprising ships of the line, frigates, and gunboats, had doubled in size since the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, totaling almost a thousand capital vessels. This book examines the commanders, men, and ships of the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars, and discusses the Navy's command structure (from the Admiralty down to ship level) and its organization at sea. The tactics employed in action by a fleet, a squadron, and individual ships are also discussed, as are the medical services available, providing a fascinating insight into the navy that ruled the waves.

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472802004
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Navy 1793–1815 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain was the undisputed master of the seas, owing to the power and strength of the Royal Navy. Its fleets, comprising ships of the line, frigates, and gunboats, had doubled in size since the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, totalling almost a thousand capital vessels. This book examines the commanders, men, and ships of the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, and discusses the Navy's command structure (from the Admiralty down to ship level) and its organization at sea. The tactics employed in action by a fleet, squadron, and individual ship, respectively are also discussed, as are the medical services providing a fascinating insight into the navy that ruled the waves.

Author : Thomas Malcomson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271191
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815 written by Thomas Malcomson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?

Author : Geoffrey Jules Marcus
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Nelson; the Royal Navy, 1793-1815 written by Geoffrey Jules Marcus and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy Jenks
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199297711
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Engagements written by Timothy Jenks and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval Engagements explores the role of the Royal Navy in eighteenth-century political culture. This was the legendary age of sail, in which heroic commanders such as Admiral Nelson won great victories for Britain. Timothy Jenks reveals the ways in which these battles and the heroes who fought them were deployed in British politics.

Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591146124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson's Navy written by Brian Lavery and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Patrick O'Brian, Nelson's Navy is the definitive reference work on the British Navy in the Napoleonic era for individuals with an interest in the workings of the greatest fleet of the sailing era. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy, the book contains considerable original research to give a clear and authentic picture of the British navy as a coherent yet complex whole.

Author : Quintin Barry
Publisher : Helion
ISBN 13 : 9781911512141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Far Distant Ships written by Quintin Barry and published by Helion. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatened the security of the British Isles. It was a strategy that had been perfected by Sir Edward Hawke during the Seven Years War of 1756 - 1763, when it culminated in the stunning victory of Quiberon Bay. The American naval historian A.T. Mahan memorably summed up the contribution of the Royal Navy to the ultimate defeat of Napoleon when he wrote: 'Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the domination of the world.' There were many aspects to the blockade of Brest, but always at its centre was the need to frustrate French attempts at the invasion of Britain or Ireland. Most famous of these, of course, was Napoleon's intricate combination that led to the campaign of Trafalgar, in the course of which his invasion plans disintegrated. But there were many other offensive moves which it was the blockading fleet's duty to prevent. Inevitably, there were great sea battles when the French ventured out, though fewer than might have been expected. For many months at a time the British fleet was at sea off Brest facing the considerable dangers of wind and weather without encountering its adversary. There were many remarkable leaders who came to the fore during the long years of war; Howe, Bridport, St Vincent, Cornwallis and Keith were among those who led the Channel Fleet. Nelson described his captains as a 'band of brothers', but this was by no means a description that could be applied to the quarrelsome, self willed and argumentative group of men who held the destiny of the Royal Navy in their hands, whether at sea or around the boardroom table at the Admiralty. Drawing on the official and personal correspondence of those involved, this book traces the development of British naval strategy, as well as describing the crucial encounters between the rival fleets and the single ship actions which provided the press with a constant flow of news stories for its readers." --Publisher description.

Author : David Davies
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811711180
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson's Navy written by David Davies and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's great Ships of the Line -- their armament, their commanders, and the daily life of the men who served on them.

Author : Roger Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843835646
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining the Fleet, 1973-1815 written by Roger Knight and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: