A Brief History of Fighting Ships (Brief Histories)
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Published: March 2002
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781841194691
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Maritime history; Naval forces & warfare; England; c 1800 to c 1900
First sentence: 1793-1815 was the period of the Napoleonic wars-a loose description of a struggle which arose out of the French Revolution of 1789 and continued as resistance, by many nations, to Napoleon's attempt to impose a single monarchical government upon the whole of Europe and beyond.