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The Trafalgar Chronicle - Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 4 (Paperback)
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The Trafalgar Chronicle - Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 4 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R536
Discovery Miles 5 360
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The Trafalgar Chronicle is a prime source of information as well as
the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy,
sometimes also loosely referred to as Nelson's Navy', though its
scope reaches out to include all the sailing navies of the period.
A central theme is the Trafalgar campaign and the epic battle of 21
October 1805 involving British, French and Spanish ships, and some
30,000 men of a score of nations. The next edition, new series No
4, will be themed on the people who knew Nelson, his friends and
his contemporaries, as well as technical and scientific changes
which were taking place at the turn of the eighteenth century.
Contributions include an article by former US Navy Secretary John
Lehman on Stephen Decatur and another by Professor John Hattendorf
on Admiral Sir John Gambier, and the observations of American
scientist, Professor Benjamin Silliman, who visited Britain in
1805. Other characters who appear are the New York-born Westphal
brothers, Jack Punch' Perkins who was the first black officer in
the Royal Navy, William Pringle Green who was so critical of the
results at Trafalgar, and the two Loyalist Richard Bulkeleys,
father and son, who served with Nelson at the beginning and at the
end of his career. Two articles on technology in the Georgian navy
address the surprising developments of the carronade and ballooning
in the age of Nelson. Like earlier editions of The Trafalgar
Chronicle, this edition is sumptuously illustrated with some
seldom-seen pictures and will appeal to naval and social historians
whether they are academics, antiquarians or amateurs or the reader
who is curious to learn about significant but often overlooked
aspects of naval history.
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