02304nam a22002897a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001700102041000800119050002900127100002100156245007900177250002000256260004600276300007200322500005500394504006900449505074700518520056301265650006001828650006001888650003901948650002701987BJBSDDR20260521155854.0ta260512s2008 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9780393066531 a0393066533 bengcBJBSDDR aeng14a318 DC 226.4bM915l 20081 aMostert, Noël.14aThe line upon a wind :bthe great war at sea, 1793-1815 /cNoël. Mostert a1st American ed aNew York : bW.W. Norton & Company,c2008 axxv, 774 pages, [16] pages : billustrations, maps, plans ; c25 cm aOriginally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2007 aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [748]-752) and index.0 aMaps I. THE TACTICAL EVOLUTION. Ocean Navy Century Decade II. THE GREAT WAR, FIRST PHASE, 1793-1805. Wood Shipboard Toulon Buonaparte Corsica Battle Uncertainty Change Triumph Mutiny Tenerife Camperdown Duel Offensive Nile Barbary Neutrality "Quasi-war" Impressed Naples Acre Return Consul Home Baltic Straits Amiens "Temeraire" Resumption Boulogne Tripoli Watch Chase Prelude Trafalgar Aftermath III. THE CONCLUSIVE STRUGGLE, 1805-1816. Appraisal Rampage Sandy Hook Chesapeake Abominable Peninsula Collingwood Cadiz Catalonia Basque roads Expeditionary forces Timor China & Japan Crisis Breakdown "Swallow" Tarragona America War "Macedonian" Reflection Northwest Lakeland Torpedoes Elba Snow march Patuxent New Orleans Adriatic Adieu Algiers aIn February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in scale only to the Second World War. New naval tactics were brought to bear, along with such unheard-of weapons as rockets, torpedoes, and submarines. The war on land saw the rise of the greatest soldier the world had ever known--Napoleon Buonaparte--whose vast ambition was thwarted by a genius he never met in person or in battleL: Admiral Horatio Nelson 4aGuerra anglo-francesa, 1793-1802 xOperaciones navales  4aGuerras napoleónicas, 1800-1815 xOperaciones navales 4aNavegación marítima xHistoria 4aHistoria navalzEuropa