Tempest the Royal Navy and the age of revolutions
The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reachi...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press
[2023]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Lawless mobs and a gore of blood : naval mobilisation and impressment
- War of principle : naval conflict in Europe, 1793-5
- 'We the seamen' : protest and resistance at sea
- Tides, currents and winds : navy and empire, 1793-7
- Splintering the wooden walls : the threat of invasion, 1796-8
- The delegates in council : the naval mutinies of 1797
- A tale of two sailors : Camperdown and naval propaganda
- Bad luck to the British Navy! Mutiny and naval warfare, 1798-1801
