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)

9781108021685, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

512 pages, 6 b/w illus. 4 tables
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.64 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 4 covers 1805–1808 and includes the Battle of Trafalgar.

1. 1805 continued. Sir Richard Strachan's action
2. Light squadrons and single ships
3. Colonial expeditions
4. West Indies
1806. British and French fleets
5. Light squadrons and single ships
6. Colonial expeditions
7. Cape of Good Hope
8. 1807. British and French fleets
9. British and Danish fleets
10. British and Turkish fleets
11. British and Portuguese fleets
12. Light squadrons and single ships
13. Colonial expeditions
14. Coast of Africa
15. West Indies
16. South America
17. East Indies
18. 1808. British and French fleets
19. Anglo-Swedish and Russian fleets
20. Light squadrons and single ships
21. Colonial expeditions
22. West Indies
23. 1809. British and French fleets
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW]