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Admiral Saumarez Versus Napoleon - The Baltic, 1807-12 (Hardcover)
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Admiral Saumarez Versus Napoleon - The Baltic, 1807-12 (Hardcover)
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Detailed investigation of the key role played by Admiral Saumarez
in the continuing naval warfare against Napoleon. The maritime war
against Napoleon did not end with the Battle of Trafalgar, but
continued right up to 1815, with even more British ships and
sailors deployed after 1805 than before. One key theatre was the
Baltic, where the British commander was Admiral Saumarez. He had
had a highly successful career as a post-Captain, notably at the
two battles of Algeciras as a newly-promoted Rear-Admiral. For five
years from 1808 as Commander-in-Chief of a large Balticfleet, he
played a very skilful diplomatic role, combining firmness and
restraint, and working with Sweden contrary to the instincts of his
superiors in London, even when she declared war. Despite the
determined efforts of Denmark's gunboats and privateers, he
successfully kept British trade flowing in and out of the Baltic,
undermining Napoleon's 'Continental System' - the economic blockade
of Britain - and leading to Napoleon's fateful decision to
invadeRussia in 1812. This book, based on extensive original
research in both British and Scandinavian archives and making
considerable use of Saumarez' unpublished correspondence, charts
the maritime and political history of thewar in the Baltic. It
illustrates the highly successful, highly esteemed role the Admiral
played and looks at the nature and motivation of the man himself
revealed in his letters and in the private letters of Count von
Rosen, Governor of Gothenburg and chief link between Saumarez and
former French Marshal Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden, later to
be crowned King Karl XIV Johan. TIM VOELCKER gained his PhD in
maritime history at the University of Exeter.
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