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"The Royal Navy's annihilation of the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar on October 21, 1805, was a pivotal event in European history. Because the victory was so stunningly complete, and because Admiral Horatio Nelson died heroically in the engagement, the event has become a legend. But Trafalgar was not an isolated battle fought and won in a single afternoon, for the naval campaign had in fact begun more than four years earlier." "This extraordinary period, following Napoleon's threat to invade England in 1801, came to be known as "The Great Terror." As Napoleon's formidable and battle-hardened Grande Armee faced an army of English volunteers across the Channel, a secret war of espionage and subversion was being fought by shadowy men with little-known names. New technologies of war - including rockets, submarines, and torpedoes - were being developed in both countries. (An interesting figure here is the American Robert Fulton - later to become famous as the inventor of the steamship - who tried to interest Napoleon in his submarine Nautilus, armed with explosive torpedoes. He failed, then took his plans across the Channel to the Admiralty in London.)" Drawing on diaries, lette

Author

Pocock, Tom

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393057768

Subjects

History, Humanities