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British Expeditionary Warfare and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1793-1815 (Hardcover)
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British Expeditionary Warfare and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1793-1815 (Hardcover)
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How did Britain manage the transportation of large numbers of
troops to French controlled territory during the French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and successfully land them?
Shortlisted for the Society for Nautical Research Anderson Medal
2016 Britain's naval victories in the French Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars succeeded in protecting Britain from French
invasion, but they could not of themselves defeat France. This
required the support of allied armies and necessitated the shipping
of large numbers of troops to, and successfully landing them on,
French controlled territory - a major logistical operation.
Wellington's expedition to Portugal and Spain led to Napoleon's
defeat in the Peninsular War, but there were many other British
expeditions before this which were not successful, in part because
they were too logistically ambitious and/or they lacked allied
support. This book examines the nature of combined operations and
considers the planning and preparation of expeditions. It
highlights the navy's important role in amphibious warfare and
describes in detail the logistical operations which supported
British expeditionary warfare in the period. It outlines the role
of the Transport Board, explores how it periodically chartered a
large proportion of the British merchant fleet and what theeffects
of this were on merchant shipping. The book concludes that the
Transport Board grew in competence; that the failure of expeditions
was invariably due to circumstances well beyond its control; and
that its pivotal role inthe preparation of all the major military
expeditions in which hundreds of thousands of British troops served
overseas was very significant and very effective. Robert K.
Sutcliffe completed his doctorate at the University of Greenwich.
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