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Age Of Nelson Royal Navy In The Age Of Greatest Power & Glory by MArcus W/DJ
The Age Of Nelson The Royal Navy In The Age Of Its Greatest Power And Glory 1793-1815
By G.J. Marcus
Hardbound With Dustjacket
532 Pages
Copyright 1971
CONTENTS
Preface
I The French Revolution
ii Jervis In The Mediterranean
iii The Naval Mutinies
iv The War On Trade, 1793-1802
v The Campaign Of The Nile
vi The Western Squadron
vii 'of Nelson And The North'
viii Land Power And Sea Power
ix Napoleon And Great Britain
x The Campaign Of Trafalgar
xi The Continental System
xii The Peninsular War
xiii The War On Trade, 1803-15
xiv The Crisis Of The Commercial War
xv The Uprising Of The Nations
xvi 'mr. Madison's War'
xvii The Hundred Days
Bibliography
Index
While most schoolboys may have a mental picture of Nelson at Trafalgar, few except historians have any idea of the whole context in which that battle and the entire war against Revolutionary and Imperial France were waged by England's Royal Navy. In setting forth the clash and chronicle of naval warfare fom 1793 to 1815, Geoffrey Marcus has given the first modern history of what was in its time the most formidable fighting force on earth and the instrument that forged for England more than a hundred years of Empire.
The "Great War," as Englishmen of the nineteenth century called it, can be seen to have begun with the firing of the Brest shore battery on the sloop Childers and ended with Napoleon on the poop of the Bellerophon, bound for St. Helena. The years between-Jervis at St. Vincent, the naval mutinies of 1797, blockade, convoy, the strangling of the Emperor's "Continental System," Nelson at the Nile and Copenhagen, the Peninsular War, the War of 1812, and the Hundred Days-are limned unforgettably in these scrupulous yet inevitably stirring pages.
As Geoffrey Marcus accurately pictures it, this was a period that abounded in supremely important lessons for the Navy of the early twentieth century: the right use of intelligence; defense against invasion; the conduct of conjoint operations; the various measures of commerce protection and attack-yet no attempt was then made by the Admiralty to record these lessons. In consequence of this official lethargy, "the living, continuous traditions of naval warfare" were all but lost to Great Britain.
Mr. Marcus sees the academic historians' cold-shoulder treatment of the Royal Navy in the age of its greatest power and glory as "a handicap to the proper knowledge and understanding of the Napoleonic era. . . . Notwithstanding that the Peninsular War may be considered the greatest combined operation in our history," he writes, "all too often the crucial factor of Sea Power has been overlooked in the conclusions of scholars."
Throughout, the Great War was a duel between Land Power and Sea Power, a struggle to the death. In the hands of Mr. Marcus that struggle lives again.
Illustrated with maps and halftones.
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