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The Savage Storm - Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon (Hardcover, Digital original)
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The Savage Storm - Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon (Hardcover, Digital original)
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An extraordinarily gripping narrative of how Britain, seemingly on
the ropes after losing control of America and with growing internal
dissent, built the military and naval might to defeat Napoleon--and
in doing so transformed its destiny In this brilliant, sweeping
history of the period, David Andress fuses two hitherto separate
historical perspectives--the military and the social. Britain's
defeat of Napoleon is one of the great accomplishments in the
nation's history, yet it was by no means certain that Britain
itself would survive the revolutionary fervor of the age, let alone
emerge victorious from such a vast conflict. From the late 1790s,
the country was stricken by naval mutinies, rebellion in Ireland,
and riots born of hunger, poverty, and grinding injustice. As the
new century opened, with republican graffiti on the walls of the
cities, and revolutionary secret societies reportedly widespread,
King George III only narrowly escaped assassination. Jacobin forces
seemed to threaten a dissolution of the social order. Above all,
the threat of French invasion was ever-present. Yet, despite all
this, and new threats from royal madness and rampant corruption,
Britain did not become a revolutionary republic. The elites proved
remarkably resilient, and drew on the power of an already-global
empire to find the strength to defeat Napoleon abroad and continued
popular unrest at home. From the conditions of warfare faced by the
British soldier and the great battles in which they fought, to the
literary and artistic culture of the time, this is a searing
narrative of dramatic events and an important reassessment of one
of the most significant turning points in British history.
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