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Broadsides : caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815 /James Davey & Richard Johns. "Broadsides explores the history of the Royal Navy during the second half of the eighteenth centuries through the lens of contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the War of 1812. Naval caricatures were utilised by the press to comment on events, simultaneously reminding the British public of the immediacy of war, whilst satirising the same Navy it was meant to be supporting. The thematic narrative explores topics from politics to invasion, whilst encompassing detailed analysis of the context and content of individual prints. It explores pivotal figures within the Navy and the feelings and apprehensions of the people back home and their perception of the former. The text, like the cariactures themselves, balances humour with the more serious nature of the content. The emergence of this popular new form of graphic satire culminated in the works of James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, both here well represented, but a mass of other contemporary illustration makes this work a hugely important source book for those with any interest in the wars and history of this era."--From publisher. 2012. • FOLIO • 4 copies available. 7.049.2:355.49(42)

British loss of life in the wars of 1794-1815 and 1914-1918 Greenwood, Major 1942 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 940.459(42)

Trade, empire and British foreign policy, 1689-1815 : the politics of a commercial state /Jeremy Black Black, Jeremy. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382.14(42)"16/18"

Voyage au Bresil, dans les annees 1815, 1816 et 1817 : atlas Maximilien 1822 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(81)"1815/1817"

The Command of the ocean: A naval history of Britain 1649-1815 Rodger, N. A. M., 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)"1649/1815"

Trafalgar Geordies and North Country seamen of Nelson's Navy, 1793-1815 / Tony Barrow. Barrow, Tony, 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1793/1815"

English/British naval history to 1815 : a guide to the literature /Eugene L. Rasor. Rasor, Eugene L., 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 016:355.49(42)

How England saved Europe : the story of the great war (1793-1815) Fitchett, W H 1900, 1909 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

Naval engagements : patriotism, cultural politics, and the Royal Navy, 1793-1815 /Timothy Jenks. Jenks, Timothy. c2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1793/1815"

In these times : living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793 - 1815 /Jenny Uglow. Uglow, Jennifer S., 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.073

Guineas and gunpowder : British foreign aid in the wars with France 1793-1815 Sherwig, John M 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.232.2(42)"1793/1815"

An imperial state of war : Britain from 1689 to 1815 1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"16/18"(42)

Brandenburg-Preussen zur See 1605-1815 : ein Beitrag zur Fruhgeschichte der deutschen Marine Szymanski, Hans 1939 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1605/1815"(431)

Young Nelsons : boy sailors during the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 /D.A.B. Ronald, D.A.B. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124"1793/1815"-055.15

Naval warfare in the age of sail : war at sea 1756-1815 Ireland, Bernard 2001 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 355.49"1756/1815"

The prizes of war : the naval prize system in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 Hill, Richard 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49 "1793/1815"(42:44)

The British and Vis : war in the Adriatic 1805-1815 /Malcolm Scott Hardy. An account of the British occupation of the island of Vis as a strategic base in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805/1815"(262:497.5)

The arming and fitting of English ships of war : 1600-1815 /Brian Lavery "The Royal Navy armed and fitted out literally thousands of wooden warships between 1600 and 1815, and virtually every item of process was the subject of alteration and improvment during this period. For the first time, in this book the precise details of these developments are set out, wherever possible with exact information on sizes and scantlings based on reliable contemporary sources. This makes the book an indispensable guide to all historical ship modellers, but also provides a wider analysis of technological developlment which wil be of great value to maritime historians and industrial archaeologists."--Back cover 1987 • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 623.94(42)"16/18"

Les marines de la France et de l'Angleterre 1815-1863 Raymond, Xavier 1863 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.353(42:44)"18"

Napoleonic wars data book : actions and losses in personnel, colours, standards and artillery, 1792-1815 Smith, Digby George 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1792/1815"

Personal narrative of events from 1799 to 1815 / Lovell, William Stanhope. ca1840. Lovell, William Stanhope, ca1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Lovell

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)

Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 : Blue lights & psalm-singers /Richard Blake. Blake, Richard. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 24:359"1775/1815"

Naval warfare in the age of sail : the evolution of fighting tactics 1650-1815 Tunstall, Brian 1990 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.49

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