The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812

A detailed discussion of British and French naval strategies used during the French Revolution, first published in 1893.

A. T. Mahan (Author)

9781108023726, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 December 2010

428 pages, 10 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.54 kg

Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) was an American naval officer, considered one of the most important naval strategists of the nineteenth century. In 1885 he was appointed Lecturer in Naval History and Tactics at the US Naval War College, and became President of the institution between 1886–1889. These volumes, first published in 1893, contain Mahan's detailed analysis of British and French naval strategy during the French Revolution, defined as lasting between 1793–1812. Mahan recounts chronologically the major naval battles and campaigns between Britain and France and their allies, analysing the different naval strategies used and discussing Britain's successful naval tactics. Mahan was the first naval strategist to explore the importance of controlling and protecting commercial shipping and preventing blockades of ports during warfare, tactics which he fully explores using historical examples from the French Revolution in these volumes. Volume 1 covers the period 1793–1801.

Preface
1. Introductory. Outline of events in Europe, 1783–793
2. The condition of the navies in 1793, and especially of the French navy
3. The general political and strategic conditions, and the events of 1793
4. The West Indies, 1793–1810
5. The naval campaign of May, 1794, and Battle of the First of June
6. The year 1794 in the Atlantic and on the Continent
7. The year 1795 in the Atlantic and on the Continent
8. The Mediterranean and Italy. From the evacuation of Toulon in 1793 to the British withdrawal from that sea, in 1796, and Battle of Cape St. Vincent, in Feburary, 1797. Austria forced to make peace
9. The Mediterranean in 1797 and 1798
10. The Mediterranean from 1799 to 1801
11. The Atlantic, 1796-1801. The Brest blockades. The French expeditions against Ireland.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW]