Author: Martin Bladen Edward HAWKE (Hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Trafalgar: or, Nelson's last triumph. A poem
Author: Martin Bladen Edward HAWKE (Hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Authentic narrative of the death of lord Nelson
Author: sir William BeattyThe Year Of Trafalgar
Author: Sir John Henry NewboltPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782891528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A happy idea carried to excellent completion by very competent hands is the best description of The Year of Trafalgar, by Henry Newbolt. It is not likely that this year of splendid memory will find a worthier literary tribute than this delightful volume. Mr. Newbolt’s is much more than a familiar story, gracefully retold. He has made an exhaustive study of all the details of the Naval Campaign of 1805, and his narrative is of distinct historical value. As might have been expected, Mr. Newbolt writes with deliberate sobriety and restraint. Great deeds are best told simply, and the last glorious chapter in the life of Nelson needs no literary embellishment. Every danger besetting a task full of difficulty is evaded. He is not laboured, nor pedantic, nor sentimental, but rather tells the great story in a direct and manly way, eminently befitting the subject. His is a book which every boy should read in "Nelson’s year," and no Briton of any age will read it unmoved. It was a happy thought to add to the narrative an anthology of Trafalgar poetry. It is a little curious, as Mr. Newbolt points out, how our greatest warlike achievements have received scant treatment from our poets. The "Victory " has been less fortunate than "The Revenge" or "The Temeraire." Strange that it did not rouse the war-bugle of Campbell to an immortal strain. Of all the verses, Mr. Newbolt’s own are perhaps the best. Some day, we trust, he will give us a song of Nelson to rank in all future patriotic anthologies with his incomparable "Drake’s Drum," "The Fighting Temeraire," and "The Ballad of the Bold Menelaus."—The Bookman 1905.
The Year of Trafalgar Being an Account of the Battle and of the Events which Led Up to It, with a Collection of the Poems and Ballads Written Thereupon Between 1805 and 1905
Author: Sir Henry John NewboltPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Naval Engagements
Author: Timothy JenksPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199297711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
The Eclectic Review
Author: The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure
Author: The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812
Author: Alfred Thayer MahanPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
Author: Alfred Thayer MahanPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812
Author: A. T. MahanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108023738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A detailed discussion of British and French naval strategies used during the French Revolution, first published in 1893.