Nelson - the New Letters
1st Edition
Published on 4. August 2005
600 pages
978-1-84615-415-7 (ISBN)
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Presents over 500 of the most important letters uncovered during the course of the epic Nelson Letters project, a five-year search of archives round the world.
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Colin White
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- NELSON - IN HIS OWN WORDS
- INTRODUCTION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- PART ONE: The Man and the Admiral
- 1. Family
- 2. Friends
- 3. Lovers
- 4. Leadership style
- 5. Popular Image
- 6. Patronage
- 7. Humanity
- Interlude: From Midshipman to Lieutenant, 1771-1777
- PART TWO: The Hero Emerges, 1777-1797
- 8. The War with America, 1778-1782
- 9. The Peace, 1783-1793
- 10. The Mediterranean and Corsica, 1793-1795
- 11. The Italian Campaign, 1795-1796
- 12. 1797: Nelson's 'Year of Destiny'
- PART THREE: Squadron Commander, Mediterranean, 1798-1800
- 13. The Nile Campaign, April-August 1798
- 14. The Italian Campaign, September 1798-July 1799
- 15. The wider campaign, 1799-1800
- Interlude: The return to England June 1800-January 1801
- PART FOUR: Northern Waters: 1801
- 16. Copenhagen and the Baltic Command, January-June 1801
- 17. The Channel Command, July-October 1801
- Interlude: The Peace of Amiens October 1801-April 1803
- PART FIVE: Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, 1803-1805
- 18. The Task
- 19. Setting off, April-July 1803
- 20. Orders to Captains
- 21. The Admiral's Files
- 22. Diplomacy
- 23. Intelligence
- 24. Sardinia
- PART SIX: The Trafalgar Campaign: January-October 1805
- 25. The First French Breakout, January-March 1805
- 26. The Second Breakout and the Chase, April-August
- 27. Build-up to Battle, September-October 1805
- APPENDICES
- 1. Chronology
- 2. Nelson's Ships
- 3. A Nelsonian 'Who's Who' by John Graves
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
