Bibliograph

The line upon a wind, the great war at sea, 1793-1815, Noel Mostert

Type

Label

The line upon a wind, the great war at sea, 1793-1815, Noel Mostert

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The line upon a wind

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

173299393

Responsibility statement

Noel Mostert

Sub title

the great war at sea, 1793-1815

Summary

Chronicling the first true 'world war', this work presents the story of the daily lives of the sailors on board the fighting ships, the blood and guts ferocity of engagement in an age of gentility, the struggles of the ships' surgeons to repair broken bodies and the daily efforts to keep the men fed, watered and free of disease

Table Of Contents

Maps -- I. THE TACTICAL EVOLUTION. Ocean -- Navy -- Century -- Decade -- II. THE GREAT WAR, FIRST PHASE, 1793-1805. Wood -- Shipboard -- Toulon -- Buonaparte -- Corsica -- Battle -- Uncertainty -- Change -- Triumph -- Mutiny -- Tenerife -- Camperdown -- Duel -- Offensive -- Nile -- Barbary -- Neutrality -- "Quasi-war" -- Impressed -- Naples -- Acre -- Return -- Consul -- Home -- Baltic -- Straits -- Amiens -- "Temeraire" -- Resumption -- Boulogne -- Tripoli -- Watch -- Chase -- Prelude -- Trafalgar -- Aftermath -- III. THE CONCLUSIVE STRUGGLE, 1805-1816. Appraisal -- Rampage -- Sandy Hook -- Chesapeake -- Abominable -- Peninsula -- Collingwood -- Cadiz -- Catalonia -- Basque roads -- Expeditionary forces -- Timor -- China & Japan -- Crisis -- Breakdown -- "Swallow" -- Tarragona -- America -- War -- "Macedonian" -- Reflection -- Northwest -- Lakeland -- Torpedoes -- Elba -- Snow march -- Patuxent -- New Orleans -- Adriatic -- Adieu -- Algiers

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