The Naval Chronicle - Volume 5 (Paperback)
The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War, 1811-1815
Pages: 374
ISBN: 9781861760951
Published: 1st July 2003
Last Released: 14th September 2008
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• Consolidated and coherent edition of the 40-volume original
• Enjoyable and easy to read
• Affordable five-volume set Volume V, 1811 - 1815, concludes the war against Napoleon and deals extensively with the conflict against the United States
As well as the famous frigate actions, the Canadian campaign of 1814, and the raids on Washington and Baltimore are dramatically described. Volume V concludes with an index to the whole five-volume set.
'The naval world of the 18th century was never more alive than this.'
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About Nicholas Tracy
NICHOLAS TRACY, having served in the Royal Canadian Navy and undertaken research for the Canadian Directorate of Strategic Analysis, was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick for over 25 years. His many works on naval history include: Who’s Who in Nelson’s Navy (Chatham, 2006), Britannia’s Palette: The Arts of Naval Victory, (McGill-Queens UP, 2007), Nelson’s Battles, The Triumph of British Seapower (Seaforth, 2008), and A Two-Edged Sword, the Navy as an Instrument of Canadian Foreign Policy, (Winner of the John Lyman Book Award. McGill-Queens UP, 2012). He lives in Canada.