STOPPING NAPOLEON: WAR AND INTRIGUE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Publisher: JOHN MURRAY; John Murray
Published: Mar 17, 2004
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 262
Description: This authoritative text covers the period after Napoleon's defeat by Nelson at Trafalgar when the British concentrated on the Mediterranean, determined to stop Napoleon turning eastwards again. For a decade the area became the scene of dangers, real or imagined, and battles on land and sea in remote and exotic places.