Product Description: This guide describes and locates over 1100 collections of original British naval documents in 250 US and Canadian repositories. It lists separate collections under six categories; provides a directory of libraries holding these collections, with details of opening hours, access, photocopying facilities and lists of papers held; and supplies three indexes...read more

Product Description: "I will be a hero, and confiding in Providence, I will brave every danger!" Nelson was 18 in 1776 when he made this declaration. By the time of his death in 1805 he had established himself as a brilliant fighting commander and naval tactician...read more

Product Description: The brilliant career and controversial personal life of the great British naval hero are retraced in the richly illustrated selection of his letters. Now in paperback, featuring 140 prints, paintings, and maps, as well as memorabilia...read more

Product Description: Sir George Cockburn emerged from the Napoleonic War the best-known British admiral since Nelson. He first came to public notice for his part in the British attack on Washington in 1814. He also escorted Napoleon to St Helena after Waterloo...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: During the French Revolutionary War the Channel Fleet played the crucial role of defending Britain from invasion, defending Britain's incoming and outgoing trade through the Channel and Western approaches, and preventing the French Brest Fleet from setting forth on raids and expeditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Glorious First of June 1794 was the first great naval engagement of the Great War with France (1793-1815). Participants on both sides considered it the hardest-fought battle between them in the eighteenth century and both sides felt they attained their objectives: the British captured or sank seven French battleships, the French saved their big grain convoy from America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the 18th and 19th centuries has emphasized developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. This book takes these considerations one-step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture within government bureaucracy to contemporary perceptions of efficiency in the period 1770-1840...read more

Recounts Captain James Cook's voyages to the Pacific, and places them in the context of their times

Product Description: British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of the state needed to extend British power at sea and overseas...read more