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Accounts and papers ... relating to ships of war Great Britain.-Admiralty 1805 • • 1 copy available. 623.81(42)"1793/1805"

Britain against Napoleon : the organisation of victory, 1793-1815 /by Roger Knight. "For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. Only at sea was British power dominant, though even with this crucial advantage the British population lived under fear of a French invasion for much of those two decades. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and eventually won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower? There have been innumerable books about the battles, armies and navies of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This book looks beyond the familiar exploits (and bravery) of the army and navy to the politicians and civil servants, and examines how they made it possible to continue the war at all. It shows the degree to which, because of the magnitude and intensity of hostilities, the capacities of the whole British population were involved: industrialists, farmers, shipbuilders, cannon founders, gunsmiths and gunpowder manufacturers all had continually to increase quality and output as the demands of the war remorselessly grew. The intelligence war was also central: Knight shows that despite a poor beginning to both gathering and assessment, Whitehall's methods steadily improved.No participants were more important, he argues, than the bankers and international traders of the City of London, who played a critical role in financing the wars and without whom the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field. Knight demonstrates that despite these extraordinary efforts, between 1807 and 1812 Britain came very close to losing the war against Napoleon - not through invasion (though the danger until 1811 was very real) but through financial and political exhaustion. The Duke of Wellington famously said that the battle which finally defeated Napoleon was 'the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life': this book shows how true that was for the Napoleonic War as a whole."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

That Hamilton woman : Emma and Nelson /Barry Gough "Emma Hamilton, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling role in Britain's naval victory over France and Spain in 1805. In this new book Barry Gough, employing the letters between the protagonists, and the unpublished examination of her career by famed American historian of the Royal Navy Arthur Marder, strongly defends Emma. He shows how this most talented of women and the beauty of her age fell victim to innuendo, slander and cruel caricature. She was to die in poverty in Calais in 1815, just months before Napoleon's final defeat. England's greatest sailor fell deeply in love with Emma in the years before Trafalgar. This, together with his quest for glory and victory entangled him in an inescapable web of circumstances and calumny. The author explores the evolving scandal, the high political stakes that were involved, and the love affair itself which so influenced the fortunes of England's glory and the fate of her Wooden Walls. No novelist could have created such a tortuous scenario, charged as it was with high emotions, slurs, insults and slander. Richly illustrated throughout, the book shows Emma, probably the most painted woman of her age, in all her glories; it also shows how heartlessly caricaturists treated her. 'That Hamilton woman' will long remain a controversial figure but here the author places her as one of the forces that gave the Royal Navy its will to fight and conquer. He depicts sympathetically a woman entrapped in circumstances of her own making, her saga reminding us of how frail is human fortune."--Provided by the publisher 2016. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92HAMILTON

Sull'immortale Lord Nelson, sonetto Egineo, Leucippo 1805 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:Nelson

Accounts and papers ... relating to ships of war and the dockyards Great Britain.-Admiralty 1805 • • 1 copy available. 655.613(42)"1793/1805"

The narrative of the Beagle voyage, 1831-1836 / edited by Katharine Anderson. 2012. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 910.4(100)"1831/1836"

Essay on comets : which gained the first of Dr Fellowes's prizes, proposed to those who had attended the University of Edinburgh within the last twelve years /by David Milne Milne-Home, David, 1828. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 523.64:094

Wiskundige scheepsbouw en bestuur Calkoen, J F van Beeck 1805 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:629.12

Traite elementaire de la construction des batimens de mer ... Vial du Clairbois, Honore Sebastien 1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12

Ship-wright's vade mecum : plates 1805 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:629.12

Navies of the Napoleonic era / Otto von Pivka. Pivka, Otto von, 1980. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1792/1815"

Engelsk og Dansk marine lexicon Schneider, Christian Friderick 1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61(03)

War in disguise : or the frauds of the neutral flags. 1805. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.35:094

The British mariner's vocabulary : or universal dictionary of technical Moore, J J 1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:800.866:656.61English

Letter from Mr Henry Walker, midshipman to his mother, Mrs R Walker, Preston Walker, Henry 1805 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92WALKER

Theatrum orbis terrarum / Ortelius, Abraham. 1574. Ortelius, Abraham 1574 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(100)"15"

The life of Horatio Viscount Nelson, Baron of the Nile, and Duke of Bronte ... 1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Nelson

Nelson and Napoleon : exhibition guide /National Maritime Museum. National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) 2005 • PAMPHLET • 3 copies available. 069(26:421.6)

Letters and despatches of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, KB, Duke of Bronte, Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron Nelson, Horatio Nelson,-Viscount, 1886 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.49"1777/1805"

Nelson and the age of fighting sail / by the editors of 'Horizon' magazine ; author Oliver Warner, in consultation with Chester W. Nimitz ; Illustrated with paintings [including portraits], drawings, letters, and maps of the period. Warner, Oliver. [1963]. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92NELSON

Lame captains and left-handed admirals : amputee officers in Nelson's Navy /Teresa Michals. Michals, Teresa, 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2/745092241

Liber nauticus, and instructor in the art of marine drawing Serres, Dominick 1805 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 7Serres

The ninth report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry : receipt and issue of stores in Plymouth yard Great Britain. Commissioners of Naval Enquiry 1805 • • 1 copy available. 623.81(423.5)"1805"

Atlas van de zeehavens der Bataafsche Republiek ... Aa, Cornelis van der 1805 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:76.035(492)

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