Nelson and Napoleon The Long Haul to Trafalgar
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Christopher Lee
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Nelson and Napoleon The Long Haul to Trafalgar
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Faber& Faber
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9780571321681
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Biographien, Autobiographien
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English
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416
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Horatio Nelson is Britain's greatest naval hero; Trafalgar, in 1805, her greatest naval victory. Nelson and Napoleon, first published in 2005, is the story of how Britannia came to rule the waves for more than a hundred years. Christopher Lee re-examines the myths of Trafalgar, plotting Napoleon's overweening ambition to invade England and Nelson's single-minded dedication to seeking glory. He shows how Villeneuve had worked out Nelson's famous plan of attack, and demonstrates how the battle could easily have turned the other way. Lee also paints a vivid picture of the protagonists: particularly of the creation of a national hero in Nelson and his intense rivalry with Napoleon.'Christopher Lee's vivid and painstaking account cuts through the folklore, replacing it with wonderful insights into early nineteenth-century Britain and Europe.' Daily Express
Christopher Lee
Chronology
Date
Major World
Events
Nelson
Napoleon
Other Events
1757
Robert Clive conquers Bengal
1758
Horatio Nelson born in Burnham Thorpe Rectory, Norfolk
Reappearance of Halley’s comet
1759
Victory against the French at Quebec and death of General James Wolfe
Josiah Wedgwood starts Burslem Pottery
James Brindley designs the Worsley-
Manchester canal, the first man-made canal in Britain
1760
George III succeeds to the throne
1762
Rousseau’s
Social
Contract
and
Émile
published
1763
End of the Seven Years War
Dr Johnson and Boswell meet
1764
Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves
1766
Oliver Goldsmith’s
Vicar
of
Wakefield
published
1767
First publication of the
National
Almanac
, an important navigational aid
1768
The Royal Academy of Arts is founded
1769
Napoleon Bonaparte born in Ajaccio, Corsica
Captain James Cook lands on Tahiti before discovering New South Wales a year later
1770
In North America, the ‘Boston Massacre’
Nelson joins the British navy
1773
The Boston Tea Party
Richard Arkwright builds his first spinning mill (factory)
Captain Cook killed in Hawaii
1775
American War of Independence (to 1783)
1777
British surrender at Saratoga
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