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)

9781108021708, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

446 pages, 2 b/w illus. 7 tables
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 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 6 covers 1811–1827 and includes the War of 1812.

1. 1813 continued. British and French fleets
2. Light squadrons and single ships
3. 1814. British and French fleets
4. Light squadrons and single ships
5. 1815. British and French fleets
6. Light squadrons and single ships
7. 1816. State of the British navy
8. England and the Barbary States
9. 1817 to 1820. State of the British navy
10. 1824. The Burmese war
11. 1827. The Battle of Navarin
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW]