Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of TrafalgarHarper Collins, 13 paź 2009 - 384 “Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.” —The Economist Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. A story rich with modern resonance, Seize the Fire reveals the economic impact of the battle as a victorious Great Britain emerged as a global commercial empire. In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Seize the Fire is not only a close and revealing portrait of a legendary hero in his final action but also a vivid account of the brutal realities of battle; it asks the questions: Why did the winners win? What was it about the British, their commanders and their men, their beliefs and their ambitions, that took them to such overwhelming victory? His masterful history is a portrait of a moment, a close and passionately engaged depiction of a frame of mind at a turning point in world history. |
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... British empire . This was not the millennium of political freedom and equality of which the radicals in the 1790s had dreamed ; but it was the only apocalypse and the only millennium which the British regime could allow . It is possible ...
... British fleet spied the enemy , about twelve miles away downwind . They had been tracking them for a day and a night , the body of their force kept carefully over the horizon , not only to prevent the French and Spanish taking fright ...
... British about twenty - two miles off the coast of southwest Spain . The nearest point was Cape Trafalgar , an Arabic name , meaning the Point of the Cave , Taraf - al - Ghar . From the very top , the truck , of the highest masts in the ...
... British captains described it afterwards , ' in coveys ' as a Spaniard remembered it , as though the British fleet were a flock of partridges drifting in from the western horizon . — Nelson was already on the quarterdeck of Victory , a ...
... British squadron in July , in which two Spanish ships had been captured by the British , the result , the Spanish thought , of French failure to defend them . The French of course saw it only as evidence of Spanish hope- lessness at sea ...
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Order and Anxiety | 49 |
Honour | 93 |
Love | 130 |
Boldness | 157 |
Violence | 209 |
Humanity | 239 |
Nobility | 275 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 319 |
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