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Warships of the Napoleonic Era

By Robert Gardiner

Book information

Publisher
Seaforth Publishing
ISBN
9781473820548
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
77 MB (80979308 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-11-24 19:09:03

Description

Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of enemy warships were captured in battle and the Admiralty ordered accurate drafts to be made of many of these prizes. Consequently, ships from the navies of France, Spain, the United States, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, as well as from Britain, were illustrated by an unprecedented variety of paintings, drawings, models or plans.

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