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The Naval chronicle: For 1805 containing a general and biographical history of the royal navy of the United kingdom with a variety of original papers

The Naval chronicle: For 1805 containing a general and biographical history of the royal navy of the United kingdom with a variety of original papers

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ISBN10: 9389169879
ISBN13: 9789389169874
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 29 2019
Pages: 552
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Gun smoke, signal flags, and hard-won seamanship: The Naval Chronicle for 1805 captures the Royal Navy at the turning point of the Napoleonic Wars. A year that changed navies. Published as a naval history periodical and now gathered here as Volume XIV, this maritime history anthology combines reportage, correspondence, and carefully compiled notices into a rich nautical primary source collection. Alongside accounts of naval battles and campaigns from the Horatio Nelson era, it offers a royal navy biographical history of officers and seamen, tracing careers, honours, and service that illuminate the human machinery behind empire at sea. Original papers on nautical science and navigation sit beside institutional detail, making the volume equally absorbing for the armchair reader and practical for the researcher. From dockyard intelligence to distant station reports, it maps naval life and the language of command, preserving details later histories abridge; ideal for collectors who value contemporary testimony at sea. For admirers of 1800s British naval history, the Chronicle stands as a living record of how news, memory, and reputation were made in the fleet itself. Its blend of narrative and documentation has long served as a naval historians reference volume, and its dense personal particulars remain valuable for military genealogy research, connecting names, ships, and theatres of war across the British maritime archives. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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