Author: James MandersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Twelve Letters, Addressed to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval
Author: James MandersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Ames Library Pamphlet Collection
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
A collection of monographs related to Indian history and civilization, as well as the British experience in India, from the 18th through the 20th centuries; includes some non-Indic material.
The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
Author: The Naval Chronicle
Author: James Stanier ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men.
The Naval Chronicle, 1807-1809
Author: Nicholas TracyPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811711104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Volume 4 of the most important account of the naval part in the Napoleonic Wars.
Britain Against Napoleon
Author: Roger KnightPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141977027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
From Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeat. For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe, and the British population lived in fear of French invasion. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower? This book looks beyond the familiar exploits of the army and navy to the politicians and civil servants, and examines how they made it possible to continue the war at all. It shows the degree to which, as the demands of the war remorselessly grew, the whole British population had to play its part. The intelligence war was also central. Yet no participants were more important, Roger Knight argues, than the bankers and traders of the City of London, without whose financing the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field. The Duke of Wellington famously said that the battle which finally defeated Napoleon was 'the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life': this book shows how true that was for the Napoleonic War as a whole. Roger Knight was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. In 2005 he published, with Allen Lane/Penguin, The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, which won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research. The present book is a culmination of his life-long interest in the workings of the late 18th-century British state.
The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author: The Annual Register
Author: Annual Register
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description