The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 4: Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era - Softcover

Hore, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526759500 ISBN 13: 9781526759504

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

_The Trafalgar Chronicle_ is a prime source of information as well as the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as ‘Nelson’s Navy’, though its scope reaches out to include all the sailing navies of the period. A central theme is the Trafalgar campaign and the epic battle of 21 October 1805 involving British, French and Spanish ships, and some 30,000 men of a score of nations.

The next edition, new series No 4, will be themed on the people who knew Nelson, his friends and his contemporaries, as well as technical and scientific changes which were taking place at the turn of the eighteenth century.

Contributions include an article by former US Navy Secretary John Lehman on Stephen Decatur and another by Professor John Hattendorf on Admiral Sir John Gambier, and the observations of American scientist, Professor Benjamin Silliman, who visited Britain in 1805.   Other characters who appear are the New York-born Westphal brothers, ‘Jack Punch’ Perkins who was the first black officer in the Royal Navy, William Pringle Green who was so critical of the results at Trafalgar, and the two Loyalist Richard Bulkeleys, father and son, who served with Nelson at the beginning and at the end of his career.  Three articles on technology in the Georgian navy address the surprising developments of the carronade, ballooning and diving in the age of Nelson.

Like earlier editions of _The Trafalgar Chronicle_, this edition is sumptuously illustrated with some seldom-seen pictures and will appeal to naval and social historians whether they are academics, antiquarians or amateurs or the reader who is curious to learn about significant but often overlooked aspects of naval history.

About this title

About the Author:

CAPTAIN PETER HORE, RN, now retired, is a former Head of Defence Studies for the Royal Navy. He is the author of numerous books, and is currently Associate Editor of Warships: International Fleet Review. He is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Vice President of the Royal Naval Museum. He has recently edited Nelson's Band of Brothers and written a biography of Henry Harwood, victor at the battle of the River Plate, both published by Seaforth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1526759500
• ISBN 13: 9781526759504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256