Fleet Battle and Blockade: The French Revolutionary War, 1793-1797 Hardcover - 1997
by Robert Gardiner (Editor); Introduction by Nicholas Tracy
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Forgetting the setbacks of the American Revolutionary War, in 1793 the Royal Navy embarked on an almost unprecedented era of victories at sea, producing a considerable appetite for pictures of every incident, great or small. A thriving trade in prints and engravings grew up, suplemented by watercolours and oils by celebrated artists. Besides these 'public' works, many officers - and indeed members of the lower deck - kept personal journals and sketchbooks, illustrated with surprisingly accomplished drawings and watercolours, often depicting the everyday aspects of wartime life at sea that were ignored in the more celebratory artistic media. These sources form a rich vein that have been barely touched in previous publications, but which this book uses to full effect. Despite numerous defeats, the French navy continued to dispute command of the sea in the period 1793-1797, and the early years of the war abound with fleet engagements, including dramatic victories against the Spanish at St Vincent and the Dutch at Camperdown, between which the navy endured the shocking events of the Great Mutiny, potentially the most dangerous moment of the whole war. This volume is the first of five covering the whole of the French Revolutionary, Napoleonic and 1812 Wars based on contemporary images, a series depicting the reality of warfare under sail in a depth never previously attained.
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- Title Fleet Battle and Blockade: The French Revolutionary War, 1793-1797
- Author Robert Gardiner (Editor); Introduction by Nicholas Tracy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD
- Date March 1997
- ISBN 9781557502728 / 1557502722
- Weight 2.59 lbs (1.17 kg)
- Dimensions 11.62 x 9.87 x 0.74 in (29.51 x 25.07 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799 -, First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797 -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96071388
- Dewey Decimal Code 944.04
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