Author: Peter G. Goodwin
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
ISBN: 9781591148241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Peter Warwick
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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An account of the battle of Trafalgar, drawn from contemporary letters, diaries and other original sources.

Author: Florian Richter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912174812
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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In the first of a potential new series Florian Richter presents color profile models of every ship on both sides in this epic battle. In a change to previous paper soldier titles, these ships can be cut straight out of the book to create the British, French and Spanish fleets.

Author: Geoffrey Martin Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: John D. Harbron
Publisher: Brassey's
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Harbron attempts to disprove many beliefs about the ineptness of the commanders and the poor quality of equipment attributed to the Spanish at Trafalgar. While the author describes the history of Spanish ship building and design, the case that would prove the ships were well led is not made.

Author: Robert Holden Mackenzie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: Philip Howard Colomb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Author: Roy Adkins
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 9780316729789
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost tangible, the crews of the British, French and Spanish ships did their best to carry out their allotted tasks. For over five hours they were in constant danger from a terrifying array of iron and lead missiles fired from enemy guns, as well as the deadly wooden splinters smashed from the ships' hulls by the cannon-balls. While the men manoeuvred the ships and kept the cannons firing, the women helped the surgeons tend the sick or helped the boys - the 'powder monkeys' - in the hazardous job of carrying gunpowder cartridges from the central magazine to the gun decks. Trafalgar set the seal on British naval supremacy, which became the mainspring for the growth of the British Empire, and in the short term not only prevented Napoleon from invading Britain, but also enabled Britain and its Continental allies to mount the campaign that would eventually defeat the French Emperor: without Trafalgar there would be no Waterloo.

Author: Roy Adkins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440627290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.

Author: Tom Pocock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909609693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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