The Naval History of Great Britain
A New Edition, with Additions and Notes, and an Account of the Burmese War and the Battle of Navarino

A detailed, authoritative history of the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, first published between in the 1820s.

William James (Author), Frederick Chamier (Edited by)

9781108021678, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

546 pages, 15 b/w illus. 5 tables
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.68 kg

William James (1780–1827) was a lawyer and naval historian best known for this magisterial history of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1827. James began to research the role of the Royal Navy in the Revolutionary Wars, publishing five volumes between 1822 and 1824. This was expanded up to 1827 in later editions. In one of the most comprehensive histories of the Navy in the Napoleonic Wars ever published, James' rigorous research methodology using various contemporary sources provides detailed descriptions of the operations of the Royal Navy in the period. Fleet campaigns and minor engagements are discussed, with technical and tactical details of ships and battles also provided. These volumes (here reissued from the 1859 edition) remain an invaluable source of information for the history of the Royal Navy during this fascinating period. Volume 3 covers 1800–1805 and includes the Battle of Copenhagen.

1. 1800 continued. Light squadrons and single ships
2. 1801. State of the British navy
3. British and Swedish fleets
4. British and Russian fleets
5. British and French fleets
6. British and Franco-Spanish fleets
7. Light squadrons and single ships
8. Colonial expeditions
9. West Indies
10. Coast of Africa
11. East Indies
12. North America
13. 1802. State of the British navy
14. America and the Barbary States
15. France and St. Domingo
16. 1803. Renewal of war
17. British and French fleets
18. Light squadrons and single ships
19. Colonial expeditions
20. West Indies
21. East Indies
22. 1804. British and French fleets
23. Light squadrons and single ships
24. Colonial expeditions
25. West Indies
26. Coast of Africa
27. America and the Barbary States
28. 1805. British and French fleets
29. British and Franco-Spanish fleets
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW]