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Title:
The line upon a wind : the great war at sea, 1793-1815 / Noel Mostert.
Author:
Mostert, Noël.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Call Number:
DC226.4 .M68 2008
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007039313.html
Edition:
1st American ed.
ISBN:
9780393066531
Physical Description:
xxv, 774 p., [16] p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2007.
Contents:
Maps -- I. THE TACTICAL EVOLUTION. Ocean -- Navy -- Century -- Decade -- II. THE GREAT WAR, FIRST PHASE, 1793-1805. Wood -- Shipboard -- Toulon -- Buonaparte -- Corsica -- Battle -- Uncertainty -- Change -- Triumph -- Mutiny -- Tenerife -- Camperdown -- Duel -- Offensive -- Nile -- Barbary -- Neutrality -- "Quasi-war" -- Impressed -- Naples -- Acre -- Return -- Consul -- Home -- Baltic -- Straits -- Amiens -- "Temeraire" -- Resumption -- Boulogne -- Tripoli -- Watch -- Chase -- Prelude -- Trafalgar -- Aftermath -- III. THE CONCLUSIVE STRUGGLE, 1805-1816. Appraisal -- Rampage -- Sandy Hook -- Chesapeake -- Abominable -- Peninsula -- Collingwood -- Cadiz -- Catalonia -- Basque roads -- Expeditionary forces -- Timor -- China & Japan -- Crisis -- Breakdown -- "Swallow" -- Tarragona -- America -- War -- "Macedonian" -- Reflection -- Northwest -- Lakeland -- Torpedoes -- Elba -- Snow march -- Patuxent -- New Orleans -- Adriatic -- Adieu -- Algiers.
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