The line upon a wind
Subtitle: the great war at sea, 1793-1815
By: Noel Mostert.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 774
ISBN-13: 9780393066531
Subjects: Anglo-French War, 1793-1802 -- Naval operations; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Naval operations; Seafaring life -- History -- 18th century; Seafaring life -- History -- 19th century; Europe -- History, Naval -- 18th century; Europe -- History, Naval -- 19th century
Notes: Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. [748]-752) and index.
Table of contents: title: Maps; title: I. THE TACTICAL EVOLUTION. Ocean; title: Navy; title: Century; title: Decade; title: II. THE GREAT WAR, FIRST PHASE, 1793-1805. Wood; title: Shipboard; title: Toulon; title: Buonaparte; title: Corsica; title: Battle; title: Uncertainty; title: Change; title: Triumph; title: Mutiny; title: Tenerife; title: Camperdown; title: Duel; title: Offensive; title: Nile; title: Barbary; title: Neutrality; title: "Quasi-war"; title: Impressed; title: Naples; title: Acre; title: Return; title: Consul; title: Home; title: Baltic; title: Straits; title: Amiens; title: "Temeraire"; title: Resumption; title: Boulogne; title: Tripoli; title: Watch; title: Chase; title: Prelude; title: Trafalgar; title: Aftermath; title: III. THE CONCLUSIVE STRUGGLE, 1805-1816. Appraisal; title: Rampage; title: Sandy Hook; title: Chesapeake; title: Abominable; title: Peninsula; title: Collingwood; title: Cadiz; title: Catalonia; title: Basque roads; title: Expeditionary forces; title: Timor; title: China & Japan; title: Crisis; title: Breakdown; title: "Swallow"; title: Tarragona; title: America; title: War; title: "Macedonian"; title: Reflection; title: Northwest; title: Lakeland; title: Torpedoes; title: Elba; title: Snow march; title: Patuxent; title: New Orleans; title: Adriatic; title: Adieu; title: Algiers.