Nelson and the Nile
Subtitle: The Naval War Against Napoleon Bonaparte 1798
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Book Sales
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781840675221
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Naval forces & warfare; Sale Adult - History - Military / War; Military - General; History; History: American; Europe; USA; Maritime History; Military - Napoleonic Wars; Military - Naval; Sale Books
First sentence: IT WAS FEBRUARY 1798, or 'Pluviose', the 'rainy month' as the French Revolutionaries had aptly renamed it in their new, secular calendar, when General Napoleon Bonaparte left Paris by coach, to begin an eight-day tour of northern France.