The Enemy at Trafalgar : An Account Of The Battle From Eye-Witnesses Narratives and Letters And Despatches From The French And Spanish Fleets

• Autore: Fraser Edward
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco : , : Wagram Press, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Disciplina: 940.2745
• Nota di contenuto: Title page -- CHAPTER I -- WHY THE FRENCH FLEET WENT TO CADIZ -- CHAPTER II -- COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE -- CHAPTER III -- THE COUNCIL OF WAR AND THE ORDER TO WEIGH ANCHOR -- CHAPTER IV -- ADMIRALS AND CAPTAINS OF THE COMBINED FLEET -- CHAPTER V -- THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE -- CHAPTER VI -- NELSON IN SIGHT-MONDAY MORNING -- CHAPTER VII -- THE EAGLE OF THE "BUCENTAURE -- CHAPTER VIII -- HOW THE BATTLE SHAPED ITSELF -- CHAPTER IX -- VILLENEUVE'S TRAFALGAR DESPATCH -- CHAPTER X -- FINAL SCENES ON BOARD THE BUCENTAURE -- CHAPTER XI -- HOW THE "REDOUTABLE" FOUGHT TO A FINISH -- CHAPTER XII -- THE MAN WHO SHOT NELSON -- CHAPTER XIII -- ADMIRAL MAGON AND HIS FATE -- CHAPTER XIV -- HOW THE "INTREPIDE" TURNED BACK TO SAVE THE ADMIRAL -- CHAPTER XV -- OTHERS THAT DESERVED WELL OF FRANCE -- CHAPTER XVI -- A MASTER-AT-ARMS' EXPERIENCES -- CHAPTER XVII -- JEANNETTE OF THE "ACHILLE -- CHAPTER XVIII -- H.M.S. "IMPLACABLE -- CHAPTER XIX -- GRAVINA AND ALAVA AND THEIR FLAGSHIPS -- CHAPTER XX -- THE "SANTISIMA TRINIDAD" AT BAY -- CHAPTER XXI -- HOW "EL GRAN CHURRUCA" FACED HIS FATE -- CHAPTER XXII -- CAPTAINS WHOM SPAIN REMEMBERS WITH PRIDE -- CHAPTER XXIII -- THE VICTIMS OF THE STORM -- CHAPTER XXIV -- THE LAST HOURS OF THE "SANTISIMA TRINIDAD -- CHAPTER XXV -- WHAT THEY HEARD AND SAW AT CADIZ -- CHAPTER XXVI -- HOW THE NEWS REACHED ENGLAND- AND NAPOLEON -- CHAPTER XXVII -- VÆ VICTIS:-THE HULKS AND THE TRAGEDY OF RENNES -- CHAPTER XXVIII -- SINCE TRAFALGAR -- APPENDIX A -- ADMIRAL VILLENEUVE'S MEMORANDUM -- APPENDIX B -- ADMIRAL VILLENEUVE'S OFFICIAL REPORT -- APPENDIX C -- CAPTAIN MAGENDIE'S PLANS OF TRAFALGAR.
• Sommario/riassunto: Of the many facets of the Napoleonic wars there are a vast number of books written in English on the climatic battle of the age of sail, perhaps only eclipsed by the wealth of material written on the Waterloo Campaign of 1815 as a single subject. However there is not a great deal written as to what went on on "the other side of the hill" or "the other side of the horizon", amongst the French and Spanish commanders who faced Nelson and his band of brothers.Edward Fraser's book goes a long way to redress that balance, and focuses on the many brave men that fought for the Napoleonic cause, some more willingly than others; men such as Don Miguel-Ricardo Alava, a Spanish nobleman who would have the rare distinction of being on the Anglo-Allied side at Waterloo and on the opposition side at Trafalgar.Edward Fraser was a prominent historian of the period having written a number of books on the great battle of Trafalgar and Wellington's soldiers in the Peninsula. This work was written just before the outbreak of the First World War, with the Entente Cordiale in place, and is therefore more balanced than some of the earlier English works on the period which tended to a more anti-French view.A fine, detailed and very thoroughly researched account of what the enemy experienced during the battle of Trafalgar.Illustrations - 60 - all incuded
• Titolo autorizzato: The Enemy at Trafalgar
• ISBN: 1-908692-92-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910164251903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II