Nelson's Navy
Subtitle: English Fighting Ships 1793-1815
Edition: Stackpole Books Ed edition
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780811711180
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Maritime history; Naval forces & warfare; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Naval History - Modern; Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801; History; History - Military / War; England; Military - Napoleonic Wars; Europe - Great Britain - General; Military leadership; Napoleon; Nelson, Horatio Nelson; First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797; Second Coalition, War of the,; Military - Other; First Coalition, War of the, 1; Great Britain; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Naval operations
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.