How England saved Europe, the story of the great war, 1793-1815
Author: William Henry Fitchett
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 438
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Author: William Henry Fitchett
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Knight
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2013-10-24
Total Pages: 757
ISBN-13: 0141977027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeat. For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe, and the British population lived in fear of French invasion. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower? This book looks beyond the familiar exploits 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, as the demands of the war remorselessly grew, the whole British population had to play its part. The intelligence war was also central. Yet no participants were more important, Roger Knight argues, than the bankers and traders of the City of London, without whose financing the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field. 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. Roger Knight was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. In 2005 he published, with Allen Lane/Penguin, The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, which won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research. The present book is a culmination of his life-long interest in the workings of the late 18th-century British state.
Author: Jenny Uglow
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-01-27
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1466828226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers—how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century.
Author: W H Fitchett
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020898600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of the major events and personalities of the Napoleonic Wars, with a particular focus on the role of Great Britain in the conflict. The book explores the political, economic, and military factors that led to Britain's victory over France, as well as the impact of the war on Europe as a whole. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: William Henry Fitchett
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 476
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Fitchett
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Fitchett
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W H 1845-1928 Fitchett
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020940163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of the Great War of 1793-1815, exploring how England played a pivotal role in saving Europe from Napoleon's tyranny. Fitchett weaves in the personal stories of soldiers and leaders to create a captivating narrative of this important period in history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.