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The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest 1793-1801 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest 1793-1801 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Navy Records Society Publications
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During the French Revolutionary War the Channel Fleet played the
crucial role of defending Britain from invasion, protecting
Britain's incoming and outgoing trade through the Channel and
Western Approaches, and preventing the French Brest fleet from
setting forth on raids and expeditions. Presenting documents
revealing the evolution of this role during the war, this book
focuses on the blockade of Brest. It shows how the blockade
developed and tightened through the increase of Admiralty control
of the disposition of the Channel Fleet. It reveals the political
conflicts that existed between the Commanders-in-Chief and the
Admiralty, the logistical demands that had to be met, and the
response of the Admiralty and fleet officers to the Spithead
Mutiny. Above all, it reveals the response of the Fleet to the
challenges it met from the French in their sequence of break-outs,
and from the perennial problem posed by the necessity to preserve
the health of seamen. Here, confuting the claims of contemporary
medical officers, is evidence that shows how scurvy remained a
scourge to the very end of the war.
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