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Acerra, Martine & Meyer, Jean. Marines et Revolution. Rennes: Quest-France, 1988, 285 pp. General history.
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age of sail; Anglo-French; maritime history; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, Anglo-French, France , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, maritime history, naval history
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Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell. The Bourbons of Naples, 1734-1825. London: Methuen; New York: St. Martin; London: Prion, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1974, 1998, xviii, 731 pp. Acton, 1904-1994; included section on Nelson at Naples in 1790s.
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18th C. (1700-1799); 19th C. (1800-1899); Hamilton, Emma; Naples; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Nelson , Naples, Revolution of 1799, Nelson, naval base , Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell. Three Extraordinary Ambassadors. London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, 64 pp. Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures, # 15, Birkbeck College, London; Henry Wooten, Horace Mann & Sir William Hamilton; Anglo-Italian relations.
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Anglo-Italian; diplomacy; Hamilton, Emma; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Anglo-Italian, Italy , Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Nelson , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adam, Frank. Henscherin der Meere: Die Britische Flotte zur Zeit Nelson. Hamburg: Koehlers, 1998, 345 pp. Early version of next entry.
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age of sail; historian; nautical fiction; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Nelson, Horatio, historian, history, historical, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adam, Frank. Hornblower, Bolitho and Company: Krieg unter Segeln in Roman und Geschichte. Frankfort: Ullstein, 1987, 1992, 204 pp. Survey of nautical fiction concentrating on Royal Navy, 1775-1815; Forester, Hardy, Kent, Parkinson, Pope, Woodman, Maynard, O'Brian, Styles, Forrest, Meacham & Meredith; tables of time periods when fictional seamen operated.
Categories:
age of sail; historian; nautical fiction; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, nautical fiction, sea fiction , historian, history, historical, Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adams, Henry. "Inauguration of the Trafalgar Way 2005." Nel Dis, 9 (April 2006): 94-100. Feature of Bicentennial "New Trafalgar Dispatch Project"; route of Lt. Lapenotiere of HMS Pickle, Falmouth to Whitehall; inaugurated August 2005; special Ordnance Survey Map.
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19th C. (1800-1899); 21st C. (2000-); cartography; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, 21st century, twenty-first, twenty first, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical
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Adams, Max. Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, 333 pp. Cuthbert Collingwood, 1748-1810; succeeded Nelson as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet; brilliant career.
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Collingwood, Cuthbert; leadership; Mediterranean Sea; Nelson, Horatio; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Collingwood, Cuthbert, leadership, leader, command, commander in chief , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Trafalgar, battle, campaign
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Adams, Max. "Admiral Collingwood: The Real Jack Aubrey?" Traf Chron, 18 (2008): 247-54.
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Collingwood, Cuthbert; leadership; nautical fiction; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Collingwood, Cuthbert, nautical fiction, sea fiction , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, leadership, leader, command, commander in chief
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Adams, Max. "After Nelson. . . . Viva Collingwood." Traf Chron, 17 (2007): 62-70. Lamented serious neglect of Collingwood & achievements.
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Collingwood, Cuthbert; leadership; Mediterranean Sea; Nelson, Horatio; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Collingwood, Cuthbert, leadership, leader, command, commander in chief , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Trafalgar, battle, campaign
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Adams, Max. Trafalgar's Lost Hero: Admiral Lord Collingwood and the Defeat of Napoleon. Hoboken: Wiley, 2005, 400 pp.
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Collingwood, Cuthbert; leadership; Mediterranean Sea; Napoleon; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Collingwood, Cuthbert, Napoleon, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, Egyptian Campaign, St. Helena, exile, prisoner under British , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , leadership, leader, command, commander in chief
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[Addis, Charles P], comp. The Men Who Fought with Nelson in HMS Victory at Trafalgar. London: Nelson Society, 1988, 144 pp. By former commanding officer, HMS Victory.
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HMS Victory; leadership; Mediterranean Sea; Nelson, Horatio; seaman; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Nelson, Horatio, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , HMS Victory, ship of the line, flagship of Nelson, current floating museum, Save The Victory Fund , seaman, lower deck, enlisted status, seafarer, sailor , leadership, leader, command, commander in chief
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Ader, Jean Joseph. Histoire de l'Expedition d'Egypt et de Syrie. Paris: Dupont, 1826, 400 pp. Plans detailed in color.
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Anglo-Egyptian; Anglo-French; invasion; Mediterranean Sea; Middle East; Napoleon; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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Anglo-Egyptian, Egypt , Anglo-French, France , invasion, armada, landing , Middle East, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , Napoleon, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, Egyptian Campaign, St. Helena, exile, prisoner under British , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adkin, Mark. The Trafalgar Companion: The Complete Guide to History's Most Famous Sea Battle and the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson. London: Aurum; Ithaca: McBooks, 2005, 560 pp. Folio, 200 illustrations; for Nelson, coverage of Calvi, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, the funeral & memorials; descriptive, not analytical; not scholarly; earlier, The Waterloo Companion, 2001.
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age of sail; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; memorial; Nelson, Horatio; Royal Navy; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , battles, memorial, heritage, tradition, bicentennial , Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adkins, Roy & Adkins, Lesley. Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy. London: Little Brown, 2008, xxiv, 429 pp. Excellent maps & illustrations, though little link to commentary; covered 1770-1815; introductory level, emphasis on geneology; exaggerated "bad" conduct & "miserable" life, as, earlier, had John Masefield.
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age of sail; condition; literature; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , age of sail, Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, literature, culture
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Adkins, Roy & Adkins, Lesley. The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo. London: Little Brown; New York: Viking; London: Abacus, 2006, 2007, xxvi, 534 pp. Social history approach, incorporating songs, poems, pamphlets; conclusion: "ultimately the war against Napoleon was won by the officers and men of the British Navy."
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Admiralty; age of sail; Anglo-French; battles; Napoleon; Nelson, Horatio; officer; Royal Navy; sea power; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-French, France , battles, Napoleon, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, Egyptian Campaign, St. Helena, exile, prisoner under British , Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, officer, quarterdeck, leader , sea power
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Adkins, Roy. Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle. London: Little Brown; New York: Viking; New York: Penguin; London: Abacus, 2004, 2005, xxiv, 392 pp. Extensive coverage of preliminaries & battle; alternate title: Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle that Changed the World; eyewitness history at its best; invasion threat, e.g., 1st Ordnance Survey, Admiralty telegraph system, Martello Towers.
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age of sail; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; Nelson, Horatio; Royal Navy; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , battles, age of sail, Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adlow, Elijah. Napoleon in Italy, 1796-1797. Boston: Rochfort, 1948, xii, 226 pp.
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Anglo-French; Anglo-Italian; invasion; Naples; Napoleon; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Anglo-French, France , invasion, armada, landing , Anglo-Italian, Italy , Naples, Revolution of 1799, Nelson, naval base , Napoleon, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, Egyptian Campaign, St. Helena, exile, prisoner under British , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Admiralty of the United Kingdom. Report of a Committee Appointed by the Admiralty to Examine and Consider the Evidence Relating to the Tactics Employed by Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. London: HMSO, 1913, xvi, 107 pp. Report of formal study committee set up in 1912; use of the literature, e.g., Desbriere, Corbett, Mahan, Laughton, Newbolt & James.
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Admiralty; age of sail; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; Nelson, Horatio; Royal Navy; tactics; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, Anglo-French, France , battles, Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, tactics, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia
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Alder, Garry John. "Britain and the Defence of India: The Origins of the Problem, 1798-1815." J Asian His, 6 (1972): 14-44. British frontier expanded, requiring strategic defense, e.g,, in Afghanistan; first Oriental ambitions of Napoleon a possible threat, then, actual threat from Russia, i.e., the Great Game.
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18th C. (1700-1799); 19th C. (1800-1899); Anglo-French; Anglo-Russian; Great Game; Imperial Defence; imperialism; Indian Ocean; Napoleon; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Indian Ocean, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , Napoleon, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, Egyptian Campaign, St. Helena, exile, prisoner under British , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Great Game, competition over Central Asia, Russia, England, Britain, British Empire
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Aldous, Grahame. "'Death and Glory': Bring Home the News of Trafalgar." Nel Dis, 8 (July 2004): 425-28. Account of Lt. John Lapennotiere & HMS Pickle bringing Trafalgar dispatch to Admiralty, October-November 1805; bicentennial reenactment.
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Admiralty; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; communication; memorial; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , battles, memorial, heritage, tradition, bicentennial , Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable
| Abbreviations | |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| Alb | Albion |
| alt | alternate |
| Am Nep | American Neptune |
| AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
| ASLIB | Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses) |
| BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
| Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
| Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
| comp | Compiled by |
| DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| EcHR | Economic History Review |
| ed | editor or edited by |
| EnHR | English Historical Review |
| HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
| HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
| His Res | Historical Research |
| His Tod | History Today |
| Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
| IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
| IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
| IHR | International History Review |
| intro | introduction |
| J Am His | Journal of American History |
| J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
| JBS | Journal of British Studies |
| J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
| J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
| JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
| J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
| J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
| J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
| JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
| J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
| JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
| J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
| J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
| J Wor His | Journal of World History |
| MM | Mariner's Mirror |
| Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
| NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
| NMM | National Maritime Museum |
| Nav Rev | Naval Review |
| NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
| Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
| NIP | Naval Institute Press |
| Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
| Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
| P & P | Past and Present |
| Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
| trans | translated by |
| UP | University Press |
| USNIP | Proceedings of the Naval Institute |
| Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
| War & Soc | War and Society |
| War in His | War in History |
| W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
| WSS | World Ship Society |