Fleet Battle and Blockade

Gardiner, R: 2005 London, softcover, 192 pages. Illustrated overview of the French Revolutionary War at sea from 1793-1797, featuring a stunning collection of 300 contemporary images from the National Maritime Museum's collections that depicts how the renewed Royal Navy achieved a succession of major naval victories after recovering from the setbacks of the American Revolutionary War. The book chronicles dramatic victories against Spain at St Vincent and the Dutch at Camperdown, while also covering the Great Mutiny of 1797, and uses previously unpublished material from officers' personal journals and sketchbooks to illustrate both major fleet engagements and everyday aspects of wartime life at sea. ISBN 9781845600112 In very good condition