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)

9781108023733, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 December 2010

462 pages, 3 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 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 2 covers the period 1801–1812.

12. Events on the Continent, 1798–1800
13. Events of 1801
14. Outline of events from the signature of the preliminaries to the rupture of the Peace of Amiens
15. The Trafalgar campaign to the Spanish declaration of war. May, 1803–Dec, 1804
16. The Trafalgar campaign concluded. January–October, 1805
17. The warfare against commerce during the French Revolution and Empire, to the Berlin Decree. 1793–1806
18. The warfare against commerce, 1806–1812
19. Summary. The function of sea power and the policy of Great Britain in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Index.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW]