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The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies ... with ... modern voyages and travels Alcedo, Antonio de 1812-1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:91(03)

War memories : the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in modern European culture /edited by Alan Forrest, âEtienne Franðcois and Karen Hagemann. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940"1793/1815":32.019.5

The travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India and Ethiopia, AD 1503 to 1508 Varthema, Ludovico di 1863 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(53/56)"1503/1508"

Nelson and the Nile : the naval war against Bonaparte, 1798 /Brian Lavery. The Battle of the Nile was the first of Nelson's great victories, and dealt a fatal blow to Napoleon's attempt to conquer Egypt. This volume offers an authoritative account of Nelson's Mediterranean campaign of 1798. 1998. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.49"1798"(621)

Convoys : the British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America /Roger Knight "The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars, revealing their vital role in victory. During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain's warships. These were wars of attrition in which raw materials had to reach their shores continuously: timber and hemp from the Baltic, sulphur from Sicily, and saltpetre from Bengal. Britain's fate rested on the strength of its economy - and convoys played a decisive part in securing victory. Leading naval historian Roger Knight examines how convoys ensured the safeguarding of trade and transport of troops, allowing Britain to take the upper hand. Detailing the many hardships these ships faced, from the shortage of seaman to the vicissitudes of the weather, Knight sheds light on the innovation and seafaring skills that made convoys such an invaluable tool in Britain's arsenal. The convoy system laid the foundation for Britain's narrow victory over Napoleon and his allies in 1815 and, in doing so, established its naval and mercantile power at sea for a hundred years."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.691.3"1803/1815"

The New Zealand pilot / Richards, G H (comp). 1864. Richards, G H (comp) 1864 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83(931)

On the present state of our knowledge respecting the magnetism of iron ships, and the treatment of their compasses Evans, F. J.-(Frederick John), 1872 • • 1 copy available. 537.67

Elementary manual for the deviations of the compass in iron ships ... / Creak, E W. 1889. Evans, F. J.-(Frederick John), 1889 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11

Effemeride Astronomica ad uso comune per l'anno M.DCCC.III / calcolata da D. Pietro Cossali C. R. Cossali, Pedro, [1797] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.3(059.3):094

Britannia's palette : the arts of naval victory /Nicholas Tracy. Tracy, Nicholas, c2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.044(41)

Blackwood's magazine. 1927. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.456(489)+528.47

Address to the Royal Astronomical Society : November 11, 1864 De la Rue, Warren, 1864 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Brevis expositio observationum occasione transitus Veneris per solem in urbe Selenginsk anno 1761 institutarum / auctore Stephano Rumovski. Rumovskiæi, Stepan, 1762. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 521:094

Colonial America and the early republic / edited by Philip N. Mulder. An edited collection of previously published essays on the history of early America and the early republic. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.02

Wetherell of H.M.S. Hussar : the recollections of an ordinary seaman of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars /John Wetherell "A true account of the British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars. This is a book which will delight the many enthusiastic readers of accounts both true and fictional of the Royal Navy in the great days of sail - the days of Nelson and other great captains who fought the navy of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. This is the story of a very ordinary seamen - extraordinarily written by his own hand - who was pressed from the merchant trade into a fighting ship of the Royal Navy - HMS Hussar. Captained by a tyrant - even by the standards of the day - this is an account of hardship, cruel punishment, battle action before the mast and ultimately shipwreck. The crew of the Hussar are eventually taken as prisoners of war by the French and there follows a further harrowing account of endurance which only ends as the crew meet the advancing British Army in the South of France in the days leading to the abdication of the Emperor."--Provided by the publisher. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WETHERELL

Virginia in the War of 1812 / Christopher M. Bonin. "Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders. A largely forgotten conflict, the war played an important role in the history of the United States. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, the author provides an in-depth portrait of the "Old Dominion" at war"-- [2018] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.5/23

Grace Darling : Victorian heroine /Hugh Cunningham. Grace Darling (1815-1842) was the daughter of the keeper of Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Isles. In September 1838 she rowed out with her father to rescue survivors from the shipwrecked steamer Forfarshire. Within days of the rescue she was regarded as a national heroine, a rare accolade for a woman in Victorian times. This book examines her life and the reasons for her fame and celebrity, which have endured into the 21st century. Grace's image was used to sell books, soap and chocolates; the book's illustrations include advertising material, paintings and photographs of commemorative items. The appendix contains poems about her by Wordsworth and Swinburne. There are extensive notes, a bibliography and an index. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Darling, Grace

Revenge in the name of honour : the Royal Navy's quest for vengeance in the single ship actions of the war of 1812 /Nicholas James Kaizer. "On 19 August 1812, lookouts of the British frigate HMS Guerriere spotted the American frigate, USS Constitution. Captain James Dacres, Guerriere's commander, was eager for a fight and confident of victory. He had the weight of Britain's naval reputation and confidence behind him. Yet when the guns fell silent Guerriere was a shattered hulk and Dacres had struck to Constitution. By the year's end, three British frigates and two sloops had been defeated in single ship actions against American opponents, throwing the British naval sphere into a crisis. These losses could not have been more shocking to the Royal Navy and the British world. In a strange reversal, the outnumbered British Army along the Canadian border had triumphed but the tiny United States Navy had humiliated the world's largest and most prestigious navy. Further dramatic sea battles between the two powers followed into early 1815, and the British tried to reconcile the perceived stain to the Royal Navy's honour. Many within and outside of the Royal Navy called for vindication. The single ship actions of the War of 1812 have frequently been dismissed by historians of the war, or of naval history in general. The fights of late 1813 and 1814 are often omitted from works of history altogether, as many (correctly) argue that they had no strategic impact on the wider course of the war. Yet to contemporaries, naval and civilian alike, these single ship actions could not have been more important. This volume explores the single ship naval actions during the War of 1812: how they were fought, their strategic context, and their impact on the officers and men who fought them, and the wider British psyche. Trafalgar happened only seven years earlier, and the fighting ethos of the Royal Navy was still hardened by Nelsonic naval culture. Whereas contemporary civilians and modern historians understood the losses as the inevitable result of fighting the vastly superior American 'super' frigates, the officers of the navy struggled to accept that they could not cope with the new American warships. The losses precipitated changes to Admiralty policy and drove an urge for vengeance by the officers of the Royal Navy. This volume explores the drama and impact of the British single ship losses and victories to examine Britain's naval experience in the moments that captivated the British and American world in the last Anglo-American War."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1812"(42:73)

The East India Company and provinces in the eighteenth century Thomas, James H 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.227

Paul Periwinkle: or, The pressgang :in three books/By the author of "Cavendish","The flying Dutchman", "Naval surgeon", etc ;Embellished by 40 etchings, drawn and engraved by "Phiz" [pseud.]. Neale, W. Johnson-(William Johnson), 1841. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-311.4

Nelson's daughter / Miranda Hearn. An intriguing novel about Nelson and Lady Hamilton's secret daughter Horatia - Nelson's only descendant - that centres around the complex relationship between Horatia and the woman she believed was only her godmother. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3:92HAMILTON

England's mistress : the infamous life of Emma Hamilton /Kate Williams. This is a comprehensive biography of Emma Hamilton, Lord Nelson's mistress. It covers her entire life from her birth in 1765 to her death in Calais in 1815, when she was survived by her daughter, Horatia. As a young girl Emma came to London to make her fortune and eventually married Sir William Hamilton, the British Envoy to Naples in 1791. She became a close friend of the Queen of Naples and then Lord Nelson's mistress. The book draws on many letters which were previously undiscovered. There are reproductions of the famous Romney portraits of Emma as well as illustrations by Gilray and Rowlandson lampooning Emma and her relationship with Nelson. There are extensive notes, a bibliography and an index. 2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92HAMILTON

War of 1812 / Carl Benn. "The war of 1812-15 raged across the American frontier, Britain's Canadian colonies, the Atlantic coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the world's oceans. The conflict saw British, American, and Indigenous forces clash, and in the process, shape the future of North America. Respected historian Dr Carl Benn assesses the reasons why ythe United States took up arms, explores the fighting that followed, and considers the meaning of the war's outcomes. This new and thoroughly revised edition draws on scholarly advances that have occured since original publication in 2002, many of which have changed our perception of the conflict. Fully illustrated in colour with specially commissioned maps and over 50 new images, this book provides an accessible and concise overview of the War of 1812." -- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.52

Free trade and sailors' rights in the War of 1812 / Paul A. Gilje. "This book examines the political slogan "free trade and sailors rights" and traces its sources to eighteenth-century intellectual thought and Americans' previous experience with impressment into the British navy"-- 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1812"(73)

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